[tor-relays] In which countries are relays needed, disallowed?

[Andrew Lewman]

On Friday, November 25, 2011 11:12:44 Steve Snyder wrote:
> It's been suggested that perhaps I mis-interpreted what I was told about
> establishing the relay in the UK.  I specified a host name that reflected
> the use of the server as a Tor relay, and this was the response I got:
> 
> "When it came to filling out the hostname for your VPS, the name struck me.
> I need to make you aware that we cannot allow anonymous tunneling of
> traffic through our servers. If it's for your own personal use that's
> fine, even if it's for the public it's fine so long as records are kept
> and are disclosed if presented with a legal requirement under UK Law."

They are confusing their own Terms of Service with UK law. Ask for a pointer 
to the law that makes a proxy server illegal. The UK government uses Tor for 
their own agents to find criminals and stay anonymous. I suspect this person or 
VPS provider is simply misinformed.

-- 
Andrew
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