I don’t see how those are exclusive? You need privacy to circumvent censorship

imagine you're living in a country that's currently blocking twitter, but somebody is posting essential information on twitter that you need to read.

twitter on Tor circumvents that censorship. giving twitter your phone number is irrelevant to that.

It's a little relevant. Twitter limits what you can see when you're logged out now, and if Twitter were breached your personally identifying information could leak out and put you in a dangerous situation.

Be careful out there friends!

it's a little relevant if you're the person sharing sensitive information that the government is trying to suppress. And if you're doing that, then yeah, take steps to keep yourself safe.

if you're just trying to read information, like 99% of the people on twitter, then it's not really relevant. it's an unlikely hypothetical in the first place that twitter leaks those phone numbers, but no government is using phone numbers to hunt down consumers of information.

It's not at all unlikely that a major service is hacked, especially at wartime. Twitter has been breached multiple times before.

> Twitter on Tor circumvents that censorship. Giving Twitter your phone number is irrelevant to that.

Until the country you're living in gets your phone number from Twitter...

> but somebody is posting essential information on twitter

Tell that somebody that websites exists.

A surprising amount of timely information from public institutions (everything from road conditions to "it's not a real nuclear attack[0]") is often much more accessible via Twitter than anywhere else.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/wh...

Which have terrible discovery compared to social media. Make a website about a hobby and you're unlikely to get many views. Post it on social media and you'll get way more

Ok. But here someone is going to use Tor to reach "essential" information on Twitter.

I don't think there is so essential information on Twitter that anyone would take the hassle to read it through Tor.