In a major crackdown on ‘free internet‘, the Russian administration while stepping up state oversight of internet activity announced to block the website of privacy service Tor. The state communications regulator has accused it of enabling access to illegal content.
The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said the website www.torproject.org had been prohibited on the basis of a court decision. “The grounds for this were the placement of information on this website that enables the operation of tools that provide access to unlawful content,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement.
“Today, access to the resource has been restricted.” Tor did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Meanwhile, the Tor website has become inoperative in Russia. There was limited access to the Tor browser and other elements of the Tor infrastructure.
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