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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by lbenes on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:21PM (#11550296)
When I was traveling in China, I would have had no access to Facebook if it weren’t for Tor. All I needed was my USB drive with a Tor + Linux and I could access the free Internet from any computer. Providing anonymity of identity is just one of the many uses of tor. [1]

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by slig on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:42PM (#11551532)
Why doesn't China block Tor? Isn't it easy as blocking all known public IP addresses?

It doesn't make sense to not allow the user to access certain sites, but allow Tor that can easily bypass that protection.

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by jaeh on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:01PM (#11551740)
there are non public ip addresses and the tor team spends quite some time fighting the big firewall in various ways.

talk from the 23c3 about tor and china: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6A7jLpL3Rs

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by rnhmjoj on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:11PM (#11551812)
No, not really: even if you could block all the known tor relays there are still the bridges that are exactly meant for this situation: bridges are like normal relays but their full list is not disclosed so it shouldn't be possible to block them entirely. This is probably what he has been using.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges

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