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China: Blocking Tor and increase of bridge users

Tor was partially blocked in China end of September. The graphs posted at the blog of torproject show that in response to the blocking of tor, the number of bridge users has grown significantly in China. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Thu, Oct 15 2009

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