Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived since November 2, 2023

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There'll never be peace for this kind of projects. The source can be saved on thousands of private computers, but as long as they maintain a main distribution site for convenience, it'll always be a target, along with any smaller ones.
- Yeah but is the same as a hydra, cut one head and 10 grow in its place
  
  And hopefully that will remain true forever, but the trajectory of the internet in the last few years has me worried.
If you watch the guys over at hexbear and lemmy.ml thats a good thing because censorship is good, because it secures societal peace. I wonder how they explain that thousands of people use these tools then.
- The good of the many outweighs the suffering of the few. Achieving perfect homogeneity is desired. Or something like that.
  
  The good of the many is achieved by detaining few and take them out of the picture. cough Uyghur cough
- censorship is good
  
  Fuck off with that big brother bullshit. "The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own."
  
  If you want to defederate your instance from hexbear, that's fine, because your instance is privately owned, but the disappearance of tools that increased individual freedom of Chinese citizens by helping them circumvent their tyrannical government policy is a bad thing.
  
  what
I found some of those repos yesterday on github, thanks for sharing.

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