[tor-talk] Belarus just banned Tor and other censorship circumvention tools

[Anton Nesterov]

Soul Plane:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Anton Nesterov <komachi at openmailbox.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Aaron Gibson:
>>> On 2015-02-25 14:22, Anton Nesterov wrote:
>>>> "11. If government inspection find Internet resources or anonymity tools
>>>> (proxy servers, anonymous networks like Tor, and so on), which can be
>>>> used to get access for Internet resources with limited access, they
>>>> should add identifier of that Internet resources or anonymity tools to
>>>> the list of limited access."
>>>>
>>>> http://pravo.by/main.aspx?guid=12551&p0=T21503059&p1=1&p5=0 text
>>>> (Russian)
>>>
>>> Is there any mention of penalties for circumventing the blocks?
>>
>> No, only for ISPs if they refuse to block.
>>
>> Also, news report in English
>> https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/02/25/belarus-bans-tor
>>
> 
> "According to an announcement by the nation’s Communications Ministry, the
> authorities intend to block access to any anonymizers that allow Internet
> users to reach online resources banned inside Belarus." That seems
> ambiguous, online resources physically inside the country or online
> resources that could be anywhere but are banned from being accessed inside
> the country? Do other countries ban all exit nodes?

Meduza confuses exit nodes with entry guards, there was no announcement
besides that one, but most likely authorities will block them. Those
relays with both guard and exit flags will be blocked too this way, but
there is no reason to target exits.

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