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On July 28th, [Macrina](https://web.archive.org/web/20160729200915/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000551.html) [announced](https://web.archive.org/web/20160729201721/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000552.html) the creation of the [Tor Project Social Contract 1.0](https://storm.torproject.org/shared/UleWiALOvWDnWxEqPcAfr49tkHaM-h7PlSmoHlRb5Rv), meant to be "[a set of promises to our community about what Tor stands for and why we create it](https://archive.is/7gWyU#selection-71.235-71.352)," which was [in the works since at least late February](https://web.archive.org/web/20160612213942/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2016WinterDevMeeting/Notes/TorSocialContract). The [deadline for ratification requests](https://archive.is/7gWyU#selection-71.481-71.641) was August 6th. The next day she also said they had a code of conduct "[in the works](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730022951/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000563.html)" by the [Community Team](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730023513/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam) (of which she is the leader) but provided other documents regarding **Tor Project** company policy, including: [conflicts of interest](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730023345/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/attachments/20160729/c0fd5492/attachment-0004.pdf), [internal complaint review process](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730023928/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/attachments/20160729/c0fd5492/attachment-0005.pdf), [harassment and discrimination prevention](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730024043/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/attachments/20160729/c0fd5492/attachment-0006.pdf), and [employee communications](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730024209/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/attachments/20160729/c0fd5492/attachment-0007.pdf). These documents appear to be relatively new as [Fatemi was not aware of them and they were not previously publicly available](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730024927/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000566.html). People wrote in to say that the "[free of cost](https://web.archive.org/web/20160804142012/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-August/000592.html)" stipulation and the [conflation of harassment and discrimination under the same policy may cause problems](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730182956/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000571.html).
The most controversial criticism came from [Tor2Web developer](https://web.archive.org/web/20160904154020/https://tor2web.org/) [Virgil Griffith](https://web.archive.org/web/20160808192628/https://twitter.com/virgilgr), who argued that the **Tor Project**'s [public "human-rights branding" may put affiliated activists in authoritarian countries at risk](https://web.archive.org/web/20160808192814/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000557.html). A few days later, [he left the **Tor Project**](https://web.archive.org/web/20160808191617/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000579.html) over the issue and took down [his blog page on his work with Tor](https://web.archive.org/web/20160503124544/http://virgil.gr/tor/). On September 4th, he [published](https://web.archive.org/web/20160904172734/https:/twitter.com/virgilgr/status/772431761498312704) a [Medium post](https://archive.fo/jCj46), which he [subsequently](https://archive.is/KpGTr) [updated](https://archive.is/FHCWX), to restate his objections and formally announce his resignation as a [volunteer data scientist](https://archive.fo/cWueA#selection-2987.0-2993.15). [Patterson](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905152714/https:/twitter.com/maradydd/status/772718905840328704) responded that "[Tor already ejected](https://archive.fo/Fswko#selection-339.86-339.105)" him, [repeating](https://archive.fo/piQr4#selection-339.110-343.1) [Lovecruft's allegation](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905154330/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000355.html) from a May discussion thread started by [Tom Ritter](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905154922/https:/twitter.com/TomRittervg) on [ethical guidelines for networked systems research](https://web.archive.org/web/20160609070134/http://networkedsystemsethics.net/index.php?title=Networked_Systems_Ethics) and whether [Tor2Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905160123/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000332.html)'s explicit allowance for [crawling of onion services](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905171156/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000356.html) was [against Tor policy](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905160634/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000354.html). Lovecruft claimed Griffith had [harvested Tor hidden-service directory](https://archive.is/lmXL8#selection-115.159-115.179) ([HSDir](https://archive.is/0cjL3#selection-777.0-783.159)) data and [tried to sell it to **INTERPOL** and the Singaporean government](https://archive.is/lmXL8#selection-115.184-115.294), which qualified as "[questionable research activity](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905155320/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015SummerDevMeeting/ResearchEthicsNotes)." Griffith [replied](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905152642/https:/twitter.com/virgilgr/status/772724095507132416) to Patterson as well as [Macrina](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905170814/https:/twitter.com/virgilgr/status/772843163660627968) that "[the chain of attributed behavior is untrue](https://archive.is/xCoOl#selection-311.85-311.127)." He is [cited as an author of a Tor tech report](https://web.archive.org/web/20160513044054/https://research.torproject.org/techreports.html), though he hasn't been listed under core members or past contributors on the **Tor Project** website. Griffith later went on to become [the head of special projects for the **Ethereum Foundation**](https://web.archive.org/web/20190818184907/https://virgil.gr/), and was quoted saying that it would be "[really great](https://archive.is/D1pY6)" if the Saudi sovereign wealth fund would invest "a trillion dollars" into the Ethereum space.
The most controversial criticism came from [Tor2Web developer](https://web.archive.org/web/20160904154020/https://tor2web.org/) [Virgil Griffith](https://web.archive.org/web/20160808192628/https://twitter.com/virgilgr), who argued that the **Tor Project**'s [public "human-rights branding" may put affiliated activists in authoritarian countries at risk](https://web.archive.org/web/20160808192814/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000557.html). A few days later, [he left the **Tor Project**](https://web.archive.org/web/20160808191617/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-July/000579.html) over the issue and took down [his blog page on his work with Tor](https://web.archive.org/web/20160503124544/http://virgil.gr/tor/). On September 4th, he [published](https://web.archive.org/web/20160904172734/https:/twitter.com/virgilgr/status/772431761498312704) a [Medium post](https://archive.fo/jCj46), which he [subsequently](https://archive.is/KpGTr) [updated](https://archive.is/FHCWX), to restate his objections and formally announce his resignation as a [volunteer data scientist](https://archive.fo/cWueA#selection-2987.0-2993.15). [Patterson](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905152714/https:/twitter.com/maradydd/status/772718905840328704) responded that "[Tor already ejected](https://archive.fo/Fswko#selection-339.86-339.105)" him, [repeating](https://archive.fo/piQr4#selection-339.110-343.1) [Lovecruft's allegation](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905154330/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000355.html) from a May discussion thread started by [Tom Ritter](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905154922/https:/twitter.com/TomRittervg) on [ethical guidelines for networked systems research](https://web.archive.org/web/20160609070134/http://networkedsystemsethics.net/index.php?title=Networked_Systems_Ethics) and whether [Tor2Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905160123/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000332.html)'s explicit allowance for [crawling of onion services](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905171156/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000356.html) was [against Tor policy](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905160634/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/000354.html). Lovecruft claimed Griffith had [harvested Tor hidden-service directory](https://archive.is/lmXL8#selection-115.159-115.179) ([HSDir](https://archive.is/0cjL3#selection-777.0-783.159)) data and [tried to sell it to **INTERPOL** and the Singaporean government](https://archive.is/lmXL8#selection-115.184-115.294), which qualified as "[questionable research activity](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905155320/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015SummerDevMeeting/ResearchEthicsNotes)." Griffith [replied](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905152642/https:/twitter.com/virgilgr/status/772724095507132416) to Patterson as well as [Macrina](https://web.archive.org/web/20160905170814/https:/twitter.com/virgilgr/status/772843163660627968) that "[the chain of attributed behavior is untrue](https://archive.is/xCoOl#selection-311.85-311.127)." He is [cited as an author of a Tor tech report](https://web.archive.org/web/20160513044054/https://research.torproject.org/techreports.html), though he hasn't been listed under core members or past contributors on the **Tor Project** website. (Griffith later went on to become [the head of special projects for the **Ethereum Foundation**](https://web.archive.org/web/20190818184907/https://virgil.gr/), and was quoted saying that it would be "[really great](https://archive.is/D1pY6)" if the Saudi sovereign wealth fund would invest "a trillion dollars" into the Ethereum space. In November 2019, when Griffith was [arrested](https://archive.is/YIMFB) and [charged]( https://web.archive.org/web/20191130133808/https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1222646/download) with "assisting North Korea in evading sanctions," Lovecruft also accused him of "[assault](https://archive.is/u7dYN).")
On July 31st, a [ticket item](https://web.archive.org/web/20160826181341/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19794) was reported to the **Tor Project** requesting the historical and current versions of several [corporate documents](https://web.archive.org/web/20160826182555/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/TorProjectCorporateDocuments) (including bylaws, voting members, and meeting minutes). Though a few of the documents are either already online or in the process of being drawn up, several have still not been made available.