Protect the Open Web as a Ford-Mozilla Fellow

> Previously I would just click "New Tor Circuit for this Site" a couple of times, and I would hit on a country relay that would allow me to reach the site that was blocked in another country.

What happens when you click on "New identity"?

I don't understand why you think (yes?) that the problem is not with what exit router your circuits are using (which could certainly lead to blockage, e.g. I often encounter blockage from UK sites when the exit router is not registered in the UK) but with the entry guard.

> Is this position limited to certain citizenship

I certainly hope not.

> or are you allowed to come from an arbitrary country?

I certainly hope so, but now that you mention it, the Relay Advocate would need to be able to travel to the US without too much hassle, and thanks to Drump, that would appear to exclude some citizenships. D-mn, we need to shake up the US Congress bigtime!

Such practical considerations aside, I am very concerned that the relay advocate be a "people person", as arma put it, i.e. can get along with all kinds of people and are fluent in at least two languages (not asking too much if TP mostly look outside the US) and have an impeccable pro-human rights record, with no history of involvement with spooks anywhere in the world (unless they are a known whistleblower like Snowden or Kiriakou),

I'd support a certain flexibility in order to hire the right candidate. Obviously someone like Snowden has huge name recognition and credibility in the Tor community. So much so that if he's interested, and if TP decides he's a "people person", some job in TP should be found for him. I do think arma has the right idea though about getting to know relay operators, and I think that is best done by meeting with them personally.

> Does this position require to travel internationally?

I should certainly hope so.

Hmm... we need to grip politicians around the world by their throat, shake hard, and freaking well make them give people like Snowden the ability to travel freely!

We the People have been far too nice to our political leaders for far too long. If we want anything to change, if we want to take back our privacy, end the endless wars, address climate change and social justice issues, and generally stop the B$, finger pointing, and can-kicking which has characterized most legislatures, we need to start kicking the political elites where it hurts. God knows they have been making us feel all kinds of pain for a long time now. Time to change that.

I found the answer for one of these questions: Start date is September 2018.
(mentioned here: https://medium.com/read-write-participate/welcoming-11-new-partners-in-… )

Unfortunately, if your issue is that the sites block Tor users, you'll need to ask the site owners to (if possible) not block users coming from Tor exit nodes (maybe via a polite email or message). A temporary solution would be to use the New Identity button in the Tor Browser Bundle (so that you can switch your exit IP), but it isn't always reliable if the site owner updates his/her list of Tor exit IPs all the time.

We need help convincing the Internet community at large that there are various legitimate uses for Tor. Refer to this Tor Project post for more info:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-ac…

Also, VPN integration into the TBB is not impossible, but very difficult, as the Project now has to maintain a VPN service on top of the Tor Network, which will put a strain on their already limited resources. VPN exits can also be eventually profiled and blocked as well too.