[tor-talk] Tor ban discussion at Russian state Duma

[Anders Andersson]

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Leonid Evdokimov <leon at darkk.net.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 02:37:02PM +0300, Leonid Evdokimov wrote:
> > there is ~120 days gap after 3rd draft approval before Tor being
> outlawed.
>
> Small update. I consider that statement it technically wrong now :)
>
> Russian Federal Tax Service (the one that banned www.google.ru for a
> couple of hours) got sort of a right to ban websites distributing
> network censorship circumvention tools if the tools can be used to
> access illegal gambling sites.
>

Could you elaborate on "sort of a right"? From your summary it seems that
they do have the right to ban for example https://www.torproject.org/ but
running a Tor exit node or using Tor should be safe?