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That site doesn't seem to have any stories about Germany
Honestly, the most notable political prosecution I could think of right now is police in Bavaria prosecuting climate activists under anti terror laws in anticipation of a possible crime.
Clicking around and looking at the chart for random other countries shows a spike for Sweden too, whereas Finland has a different but interesting pattern all of its own.
Wonder if the fact that they’re related to NATO, who is at war, have anything to do with it.
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I use tor for exploring topics that I don't want to tie to my regular profile (ranging from professional software development, through health care issues, but also hobbies, fiction and nsfw content). Having these browsing in a separate profile and also IP address makes it much more relaxed to look for interesting stuff on the internet. (I am not really fond of advertisement that tries to sell me whatever I've visited…
Maybe there’s an alternative reality where people do the right thing, and in that world I wouldn’t have to block Tor, but I don’t live in that world.
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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?
EU? Basically researchers tries to get PII from people connected to Tor without consent of these people.
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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.
Can you say more about East Germany and what is going on there for them to be open to conspiracy theories, neurotic thoughts, etc?
During the cold war and after, the US and anglosphere was mostly interested in the destruction of left ideology, labor unions, left parties etc. were all targeted. The right offers a safe outlet for people with those grievances, it doesn't threaten capital, so it was always allowed to linger in Germany not just in the east. It's deeply rooted in establishment and civil organizations, in university fraternities (schlagende verbindungen, the CSU etc.). The allied supported and used and bolstered far right groups all around Europe (Gladio, NSU, etc.) in their fight against socialism and people on the left. We still feel the effects to this day and state and federal police and intelligence still operate this way.
Protests in Germany you see police protecting far right groups from leftists, not the other way around. It's a necessary aspect of liberalism to allow the disenfranchised the outlet into right wing extremism.
Does anyone understand the mass flagging and downvotes going on in this comment section? I'm very confused as I've never seen anything like it.
I'm guessing that there is some automatic system that works on certain words in comments. Flame detection has been mentioned before. Probably in combination with account age or karma. I also imagine that users vouching for these might offset the behaviour.
But also some accounts are just banned.
Banned accounts can still comment, but they start dead and have to be vouched first before showing to anybody who didn't enable showdead in their profile.
From an average of significantly below 500k to almost 2.5M users. This drives up the global number of connecting users from approx. 3M to almost 5M. Hard to imagine that so many people in Germany suddenly switched to TOR, especially since there has not been any significant event lately that may have triggered such a decision (afaik)? My personal experience with TOR (as an administrator of various websites and service…