[tor-relays] Exit Node Geographical Location

[Duncan Guthrie]

Hi folks,

I think it would be interesting to run relays in Africa and Asia. Especially Africa, as this area has growing internet usage, and censorship of the internet in some countries is not widespread, e.g. Liberia.

Another argument is that even if there is censorship, having more relays in these countries is still important to help protect people in other countries. For example, you are going to want your traffic to exit in somewhere like Russia if you are in the US or UK since Russia is unlikely to hand over data it is collecting to the US or UK governments.

Thus, running relays in Africa and Asia should be a priority right now.

Duncan

On 8 December 2016 9:53:11 am GMT+00:00, Chris Adams <chris at chrisada.co.uk> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I want to start up another exit node. I have a few choices for which
>country it's in. I currently live in a country with quite a high exit
>node/population density.
>
>Are there any advantages to distributing nodes around the globe in
>terms of
>performance/privacy?
>
>Are there some countries where you definitely shouldn't run exit nodes?
>(Censored internet is an obvious example)
>
>C
>
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