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News Orgs & Activists: Onionize Your Sites Against Censorship

Launching an onion address is a preventative measure for news organizations and activists to take against censorship around the world.

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The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose

Tor is designed to defend human rights and privacy by preventing anyone from censoring things, even us.

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The Tor Social Contract

At The Tor Project, we make tools that help promote and protect the essential human rights of people everywhere.

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Q and A with An East African Human Rights Activist

 Can you tell us about your work?

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UN Special Rapporteur: Anonymity Is Gateway to Free Expression

We at the Tor Project have long

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New Release: Tor Browser 9.0a8

Tor Browser 9.0a8 is now available from the Tor Browser Alpha download page and also from our

New version of OnionShare makes it easy for anyone to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites

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Removing End-Of-Life Relays from the Network

Today, the Tor network is composed of more than 6000 relays.

New alpha release: Tor 0.4.2.2-alpha

There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.2.2-alpha from the download page on the website. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release likely in the next couple of weeks.

Remember, this is an alpha release: you should only run this if you'd like to find and report more bugs than usual.

This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.

Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07

Major features (directory authorities):
- Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently deprecated release series. The currently supported release series are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
- Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.