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Author: harmony
Date:   2014-09-02T22:25:56+00:00

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 Helping Internet services accept anonymous users
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-Without its large network, run by thousands of dedicated volunteers, Tor
-would never be as useful as it is nowadays. Even if current situation
-might seem fragile at times, there are still places where its feasible
-to host Tor exit nodes.
-
-But there's a recent alarming trend in having Internet services blocking
-Tor users indiscriminately. The main use of Tor is to reach existing
-Internet services while protecting their privacy. Being only able to
-browse half of the existing websites would greatly undermine Tor
-usefulness and anonymity set.
-
-Roger Dingledine wrote a “call for arms” [XXX] explaining the problem
-in more details and a possible way to tackle the problem. “Step one is
-to enumerate the set of websites and other Internet services that handle
-Tor connections differently from normal connections […]. Step two is to
-sort the problem websites based on how amenable they would be to our
-help” writes Roger.
-
-A person working on this would have to be “technical and good at
-activism”. If that sounds like a project raising your interest, OTF
-expressed interested in funding work on the matters through their
-Information Controls Fellowship Program [XXX]. Read the blog post
-in full for more details.
-
+Without a large and diverse network, run by thousands of dedicated
+volunteers, Tor would be nowhere near as useful or popular as it
+currently is. Although the current situation might at times seem
+fragile, there are still many places where it is feasible to host Tor
+exit nodes.
+
+However, Tor would become much less attractive to users if they found
+themselves unable to reach or interact with their favorite websites
+while using it, a situation that is unfortunately growing more common
+as site administrators and engineers react negatively to instances of
+abusive Tor traffic by banning anonymous connections outright. Tor
+users and developers, as well as members of other online communities
+(such as Wikimedia [XXX]), have tried to address the issue before,
+but real progress has yet to be made.
+
+Roger Dingledine wrote a “call to arms” [XXX] explaining the problem
+in detail and exploring possible paths to a solution: “Step one is
+to enumerate the set of websites and other Internet services that
+handle Tor connections differently from normal connections […]. Step
+two is to sort the problem websites based on how amenable they would
+be to our help”.
+
+Since the problem involves humans as much as it does machines,
+anyone working on it will have to be both “technical” but also
+”good at activism”. If you fit that description, OTF has expressed
+interest in funding work on this issue through their Information
+Controls Fellowship Program [XXX]. Please read Roger’s blog post in
+full for more details.
+
+ [XXX]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Partnership_between_Wikimedia_community_and_Tor_community
  [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users
  [XXX]: https://www.opentechfund.org/labs/fellowships
 



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