R-Ando,
"Well why wouldn't they just go and directly spy on terrorists instead?"
You mean the same way they can go and spy on pedophiles directly as well? Any argument you can make for DarkTor and it's value to society applies to porn as well.
Sorry, mate, you're trying to eliminate car accidents by taking away freeways. You've found a solution in search of a problem. It works better the other way around.
r-ando I'm sure no one here would want to discourage your upbeat nature and enthusiasm (the world needs that) but I agree with cyanez, you seem to seriously have hold of the wrong end of the stick about what "DarkTor" will be for and what privacy/anonymity truly means. It's not an opportunity to "rid the world of that disgusting pornography" (my phrase I just penned but unfortunately the nature of your posts and the concentration on pornography are indicating you have a strong distaste for it and and moral desire to see it banned/removed/voted off so "rid the world of that disgusting pornography" is how you're sounding). Your suggestions along the lines of "well there's already the normal Internet for pornography so if we don't have it on the DarkTor, the government will at least strike DarkTor off the list as a place where paedophiles go" is such an unbelievably naive view I barely know how to try to describe why that is and help you realise that.
I think you've completely and utterly misunderstood what this concept is all about. "DarkTor" (or whatever it will be called) will be designed to be completely free, open and devoid of restriction. That means it needs to carry everything and anything without any form of censorship or collective voting. It needs to be "free speech" at its ultimate and enable humans to freely publish, view and have access to anything and everything. Anything less than this and it's a controlled system that no longer assures freedom. I know you'll be thinking "but what about child pornography?" Well to tack onto cyanez's freeway analogy above, we wouldn't think about closing down a section of road when it was revealed that some child pornographers were travelling on it with contraband child pornography in their vehicles would we? That would be ridiculous. Law enforcement needs to use other means to pursue and catch such criminals. Likewise we wouldn't consider banning cars for the same reason just because these same child pornographers used cars.
The DarkTor is to enable humans to operate without overarching monitoring and control by governments and big business. It HAS TO fundamentally be completely private otherwise the core essence of what this is about starts collapsing. Your concepts of voting for content are technically ridiculously cumbersome and socially, a complex disaster where, even with the best crypto signing techniques, all sorts of problems could be introduced to give some types of content (and people publishing it) an edge over other types. It would be unworkable in the extreme and people would simply develop all sorts of mechanisms to get around it. Without even going into the complexities of why it wouldn't work, if there was a voting system, someone would then have to vote on child pornography and by potentially having that image displayed on their device in order to cast a vote, they've effectively "downloaded" it and thereby committed a crime. To even think you could have a voting system is just fraught with so many technical and legal issues it doesn't warrant any further discussion.
I think you need to go do some study on libertarian thought around why the state is such a danger to human progress. I think you're missing much fundamental understanding about what this whole realm and DarkCoin's about and what the potential DarkTor would also be for.