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If enough people switch to Tor, then Tor will get banned. Technical solutions don’t fix bad policies.
by sedatk 2y ago
If enough people switch to Tor, then Tor will get banned. Technical solutions don’t fix bad policies.
- LAC-Tech 2y agoIf you're in a struggle against a hostile regime, you don't refuse to use the weapons available to you because they're not what will bring you final victory. You use whatever you can.
- sedatk 2y agoDon’t refuse of course, but any workaround will be unsustainable, and you will eventually run out of measures unless the issue gets addressed politically.
- beeflet 2y agoTor is pretty hard to block. I think that some sort of mixnet is pretty much the solution to all ISP/Government spying and censorship on the web as they make the law de-facto unenforcable
- sedatk 2y agoIt's not, really. All governments have to do is to block all IP addresses in exitnodes.txt, and suddenly it's only a handful of people who can bootstrap Tor using custom exit nodes remain.