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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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> it would be extremely unethical and illegal for academics to do Nothing illegal about it.

Hugely depends on the country. Don't assume the law you know, to apply here

Can you give just one example of a country with a law making it illegal for academics conducting research to attempt to demask tor users?

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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China has the great firewall, the UK has Hadrian's firewall, I guess this is the Berlin firewall.

As someone from the UK I’ve never seen anything blocked on my home Internet (except actual scam sites but you can turn that off, and yes that’s from my ISP and not the browser) My mobile data does incorrectly flag some things as 18+ though

Are you required to provide doxxing personal information proving your age on these sites or can you browse anonymously?

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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This is completely removed from reality. The right wing movements in Europe started around 2000 in Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and France. Germany was way behind . In Germany the AfD won voters after Merkel let in too many refugees in 2015 against the will of many CDU voters. The AfD is probably less extreme than MAGA and most European counterparts, including Scandinavian ones. But it is always easy to pile on Ge…

Please you are whitewashing history. Hoyerswerda gruesst. This shit was happening already in the 90s right after reunification and in the context of OP - it’s not surprising at all, eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton.

"eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton."

As opposed to the BRD, where for example the "Auswärtiges Amt" had more ex NSDAP party members after 1945 than before?

There definitely was denazification in the east, but the totalitarian enclosed and literally walled of mindset did not help with creating an open mind towards the world. Add to that high unemployment and poverty after 1990 and you get the usual extremists on both sides of the spectrum.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Is tor really the go-to workaround for this and not just a VPN?

VPN seems like it would be vastly preferable for performance and reliability.

Yeah, but few VPNs are free, and the ones that are tend to be slow and unreliable due to overloading.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Maybe related to the Proto-Nazi party AfD winning a district a few days ago. And this 5 day old news story: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-afd-securi... "Germany’s far-right AfD placed under security service surveillance" - "The party is now treated as a ‘suspected case’ for far-right extremism". I wonder if anyone can see inside the right-wing chat networks and if they've been mentioning Tor. Alth…

As a Danish person who has been to Eastern Germany (outside Berlin) I'm really not surprised by the rise of the AfD. It's common to see people on social media praise Germans for de-Nazification and criticize the Japanese for not confronting their past in the same way. Those people have clearly not interacted with Eastern Germans. In Eastern Germany the underlying neuroticism, persecution complex, and willingness to b…

I don't know why this is getting down voted.

Poster didn't say it's rampant, just that "it is very much alive."

I'm German, I live in Berlin, I regularly spend time in eastern Germany, outside Berlin. I can sadly confirm this.

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