LWN: Comments on "Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report"

Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report

k8to — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:49:32 +0000

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

Tor Project 2020-2021 annual report

pebolle — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:51:12 +0000

> 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

koh — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:44:48 +0000

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

bjartur — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 23:29:48 +0000

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!