It is a large community which will find the means to finance the organisation of getting around blocking in Russia,' said Mikhail Klimarev, head of the Internet Defence Society, a non-profit group seeking to fight online censorship in Russia.Īnton Gorelkin, a member of Russia's State Duma committee on information and communications, this week described Tor as a cover for illegal activity and an 'absolute evil'. 'Blocking Tor would be practically impossible. 1 and urged its users to circumvent the block by visiting its mirror site, which was still working. In a blog post published on Tuesday, Tor said some internet providers had started blocking access since Dec.

GlobalCheck, a group that monitors websites' accessibility in Russia, confirmed that blocking had begun. There was limited access to the Tor browser and other elements of the Tor infrastructure. Reuters verified that the Tor website was inaccessible. Tor, which says its mission is to advance human rights and freedoms, says it has more than 300,000 users in Russia, or 14% of all daily users, second only to the United States. The Tor anonymity network is used to hide computer IP addresses to conceal the identity of an internet user.

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