Layers of irony

The Tor Project boils the message down to two words: stop censorship. When it comes to SOPA and Tor, there's no small about of irony. The Tor software was created by the U.S. government, and the nonprofit Tor Project is funded in part by federal agencies that hope that it will let Internet users in repressive regimes bypass their country's informational blockades. SOPA could make it illegal to distribute Tor and similar software that might let users circumvent attempts by the U.S. government to block pirate Web sites.