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> When this research was conducted, Tor was in the process of recovering from a serious crisis in which a prominent community member had just been fired for allegedly engaging in sexual violence and abusive behaviour, which several participants linked to the changing values of the Tor Project. As a result, I sought to conduct these interviews sensitively, and to discuss these issues sensitively in this analysis, focusing on the organisational and cultural changes which resulted from these events.

In the section on 'Cultural change and boundary breakdown,' Collier found that there was "a transformation in how the Tor community understands itself as the organisation," towards "professionalisation," between 2013 (see '[*The Snowden Leaks*](https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/master/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor.md#the-snowden-leaks)') and the years following Appelbaum's resignation. He incorrectly summarises that Applebaum was "fired," when in fact he resigned (see '[*The Resignation*](https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/master/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor.md#the-resignation)'), and lists "the installation of Shari Steele as director" as occurring after the board was replaced, even though Steele was appointed in December 2015, more than half a year earlier.
In the section on 'Cultural change and boundary breakdown,' Collier found that there was "a transformation in how the Tor community understands itself as the organisation," towards "professionalisation," between 2013 (see '[*The Snowden Leaks*](https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/master/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor.md#the-snowden-leaks)') and the years following Appelbaum's resignation. He incorrectly summarises that Appelbaum was "fired," when in fact he resigned (see '[*The Resignation*](https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/master/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor.md#the-resignation)'), and lists "the installation of Shari Steele as director" as occurring after the board was replaced, even though Steele was appointed in December 2015, more than half a year earlier.

> This has met with praise from some sections of the community and considerable opposition from others, and has shaken the détente between the social worlds of Tor... A social worlds perspective allows us to understand this crisis as not just a clash between groups within the Tor community, but as the rupture of a previously stable equilibrium between different ways of understanding the project.

In late April 2024, [Collier](https://archive.is/3Vo2i) published the book "[Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy](https://web.archive.org/web/20240425071207/https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy)" through the MIT Press. It contains many of the same obvious chronological and factual errors, including that "core developers and contributors within the community [were] publicly attesting to the accounts against Appelbaum" before he left the **Tor Project**; this did not occur until after he had already resigned. The **Tor Project** had also not "formally suspended Appelbaum while it employed a private investigator to substantiate the accounts," as he was not formally suspended, the investigation was first announced in June, and the external investigator did not finish until late July 2016, around two months after he had already "stepped down from Tor" in May 2016. Steele's statements on the conclusions of this investigation were also notably vague as to what allegations she was able to "substantiate" (see '[*Tor Project Concludes Investigation*](https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/master/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor.md#tor-project-concludes-investigation)').

![Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw9LAVQFqOF/](https://archive.is/GXHEF/3d56f8d7813d6f5746a974d00b3db5ebd98fcabb.jpg)

`Ai Weiwei, Srećko Horvat, and Appelbaum at Brandenburger Tor rally for Assange, May 2nd 2019. Photo credit: Ai Weiwei`
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