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ether_a_gogo45 karma

I really like using TOR, but I sometime feel bad doing so. I like my anonymity on the web, but don't really need it. Given the bandwidth squeeze, I feel like that could be better used by someone else. Do you guys discourage people from using TOR for general web surfing? What's the general feeling on this?

ether_a_gogo2 karma

Generally, the way it works is if your agency/department is funded solely by user fees, rather than a direct appropriation, you don't shut down. For instance, I'm at NIH, which means that I'm funded by a direct appropriation to HHS from the federal budget. We're shut down. The same is true for the national park service, via the department of the interior.

However, I have friends who work in inspections for the FDA. They're still working, because they're funded by user-fees from the drug companies that they inspect. They have the money to keep going, because their funding source isn't the federal budget.