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Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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And NATO or ukrainian propaganda? Because that is also a thing, even though not as blatant. The problem with banning information, is that it is easy to abuse this and it creates a martyr effect. I rather would like people be able to judge information by themself and not decide for them.

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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)

- it's dns blocked -

Uhm...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrungen_von_Internetinhalte...

Edit: parent poster has now changed his post after claiming there was no blocking in Germany

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Could these be attempts at data mining for unmasking Tor users?

Seems most likely, either by academics or government. Not really the most subtle way about it though and likely to face some response. I'd assume both have the capability to run a fairly accurate simulated network without anyone noticing so it's a bit strange.

Could it be someone using Hetzner?

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)

Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.

I can open rt.com just fine in Germany. (Not using my ISP's DNS server though. It's true that rt.com won't resolve when using it.)

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And NATO or ukrainian propaganda? Because that is also a thing, even though not as blatant. The problem with banning information, is that it is easy to abuse this and it creates a martyr effect. I rather would like people be able to judge information by themself and not decide for them.

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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.

Source? I’m in NL and I can access it just fine. I use Cloudflare for DNS though

I would say this is the best solution. I live in another EU country where ISPs also block it via DNS.
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