[tor-bugs] #23270 [Core Tor/Tor]: Allow Tor relays to be configured to block selected hidden services, including racist hate sites

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#23270: Allow Tor relays to be configured to block selected hidden services,
including racist hate sites
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks                          |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:  racism, hate, anti-fascism,          |  Actual Points:
  probably-bad-idea, slippery-slope, but-its-    |
  the-good-kind-of-censorship,                   |
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 Replying to [comment:8 cypherpunks]:
 > You just do not get Free Open Source Software, do you? Users own the
 right to edit the software as they please. Tor Project has no ability to
 control what sites people can host and access. Relay operators have no
 ability to either. This is permanently baked into the design.
 >
 > Best to completely forget about the whole blog post, it was a very
 stupid idea, one very new person decided in haste, and doesn't speak for
 everyone in the Tor community. Speech may be unpleasant, even "dangerous",
 but it is still free speech.

 The blog post is actually saying the same thing as you:
 Tor is designed to defend human rights and privacy by preventing anyone
 from censoring things, even us.

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