Mexicos Tor Turnaround: Lifting Shadows on Government Access Mexico’s Tor Turnaround: Lifting Shadows on Government Access In a significant shift for digital privacy and access in Mexico, the government has partially lifted a longstanding ban on accessing its main web portal via the Tor network
Mexico Partially Lifts Longstanding Website Ban On Tor . . . Mexico has finally lifted its long-running Tor ban for the main government portal, allowing privacy-focused users, journalists, and activists to access gob mx again after more than a decade of blocking That said, the open data portal and the former Tor-compatible whistleblower system remain inacces
r TOR on Reddit: Why is TOR not Forbidden? Why would the . . . A knife is legal to own but illegal to use for malicious purposes Similar to Tor, it’s what people might do with it that could be against the law Even so, enforcing such a ban would be technologically challenging and would require enormous resources The internet itself is global and Tor can be developed and maintained outside of US jurisdiction
Tor Blog | The Tor Project Mexico blocked Tor access to government websites citing security concerns The current administration lifted the main block earlier this year, though some sites appear to remain restricted Ironically, the government had previously used Tor for its own anti-corruption whistleblower system while blocking citizens
The Politics of Censorship: Why Some Countries Want Tor . . . This article examines why some countries seek to ban or restrict Tor, the methods they use, and the broader political and social implications of such measures How Tor Works — a brief primer Tor anonymizes traffic by routing it through a sequence of relays, encrypting data at each hop so that no single relay knows both the origin and destination
Why the Dark Web Isnt Banned, Blocked, or Illegal: A . . . The Dark Web—a hidden layer of the internet accessible primarily through tools like the Tor browser—often evokes images of shadowy dealings, from illicit marketplaces to anonymous forums Yet, despite its notoriety for hosting illegal activities, the dark web as a whole remains neither banned nor illegal in most jurisdictions worldwide