[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:15 cypherpunks]:
 > > If an onion address is censored, a new one can be created within
 minutes
 >
 > then all the nazis following this site have to go work hard to find the
 new address. they don't have a twitter account anymore so it's not easy
 for them to just look it up. Yes, sure it's possible to get around it but
 making life harder for nazis and slowing them down is a net good for the
 world. You complained about US politics, how do you think that situation
 happened? people like these sharing their toxic rhetoric online.

 What I'm saying is that they don't need Tor to share their toxic ideas,
 online or offline. Destroying Tor so they cannot use it to share their
 toxic ideas will not stop them from continuing what they are doing, it
 will just remove tor from the list of tools that good people can use.

 >
 > >If we get in a position where someone is able to control what is
 published, then the next step is to ask them to censor this other bad
 topic that is really really bad, and them make them responsible for
 anything that they decided not to censor.
 >
 > It's not censorship to choose not to publish someones illegal, violent
 hateful screeds.

 Nobody choose to publish anything, except the owner of the onion site.

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