[tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

[Jonas]

Where is this criteria documented? 

It seems the tor project, or its designated volunteers, are increasing controlling and managing the network. In the Swiss Federation and EU this turns the tor project into an "online service provider" or "online platform" and subjects one to all sorts of regulations and compliance regimes.

We already get enough requests from the police regarding relays hosted in our datacenters. Shall we point them at tor as the network operator?

Jonas


---------- Original Message ----------
On Wed, November 10, 2021 at 8:59 AM,  Georg Koppen<gk at torproject.org> wrote:
Hello everyone!

Some of you might have noticed that there is a visible drop of relays on 
our consensus-health website.[1] The reason for that is that we kicked 
roughly 600 non-exit relays out of the network yesterday. In fact, only 
a small fraction of them had the guard flag, so the vast majority were 
middle-only relays. We don't have any evidence that these relays were 
doing any attack, but there are attacks possible which relays could 
perform from the middle position. Therefore, we decided we'd remove 
those relays for our users' safety sake.