Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report

[Posted June 17, 2022 by corbet]

The Tor Project has released a new annual report.

One element of this year's work that inspires me, and shows the power of the Tor community, is the response to the internet censorship in Russia and Ukraine. The entire Tor community immediately jumped into action to keep people online. Seeing this passion in action, while keeping tens of thousands of Russians connected to the open internet, has been inspiring.

Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report

Posted Jun 19, 2022 23:29 UTC (Sun) by bjartur (guest, #67801) [Link] (3 responses)

The onion router (TOR) is an incredible freedom and live-saving network. Since October 2021, TOR has lost two out of every three Russian users. I hope for an anti-censorship tool to increase in usage when censorship reaches the level of blocking major news sites, major opposition politician blogs, Facebook, and Twitter. Instead, Ulrainians and Russians are turning to Signal and Telegram—a chat application and a pubsub application where honest news from Ukrainia can, as of yet, be shared more or less freely.

I want to donate to an organization that increases freedom and peace in Europe. The onion router was high on my list of candidate recipients. But if it needs decades to grow into the ubiquitous anti-censorship tool I desire, I’ll fund the Ukrainian military first, and Internet resilience againt censorship maybe later. Convince me otherwise!

Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report

Posted Jun 20, 2022 0:44 UTC (Mon) by koh (subscriber, #101482) [Link]

Weird post. Starts with stating A and ends with !A. I'd have said "make up your mind", but it seems you already did.

Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report

Posted Jun 20, 2022 0:51 UTC (Mon) by pebolle (guest, #35204) [Link] (1 responses)

> The onion router (TOR) is an incredible freedom and live-saving network. Since October 2021, TOR has lost two out of every three Russian users.

Perhaps it is not that incredible after all!

Powerful or dedicated governments might not be too impressed: how many Tor nodes operate in $YOUR_FAVOURITE_EVIL_STATE?

Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report

Posted Jun 20, 2022 8:49 UTC (Mon) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

Yeah, I'd imagine the people unplugged because they're afraid of getting arrested or dead.