Personally, the expulsion of Appelbaum and the replacement of the board make me *more* confident in the Tor organization. The relays I run, B6C7FAFFFCEFC30541D38F33E25B1E0DB135C5D8 (non-exit) and 78C7C299DB4C4BD119A22B87B57D5AF5F3741A79 (exit), will NOT be participating in this "strike".
I am making this announcement because we have to physically move the computer running the exit sometime in the next week or so, and it may be down for a couple of days, depending on how long it takes the network admins to reconfigure things. This is merely an unfortunate coincidence of timing. The non-exit will remain up.
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