Hello, just a quick update: Some friends from Turkmenistan told me that they don't think this new round of online censorship is related to the upcoming elections, because it's just a "formal" event. In general, they said, shutdowns and internet disruptions are motivated by other events like: - when Russian Duma speaker arrived in TM - the wedding day of the president's grandson Anyway, today we tested some of bridges that you shared with us and I replied back saying which ones worked and which ones didn't. Thank you for running a bridge!, Gus On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 04:25:05PM -0300, gus wrote: > Dear Relay operators community, > > The parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan are coming up very soon on > March 26th[1], and the Turkmen government has tightened internet censorship > and restrictions even more. In the last few months, the Anti-censorship > community has learned that different pluggable transports, like > Snowflake, and entire IP ranges, have been blocked in the country. > Therefore, running a bridge on popular hosting providers like Hetzner, > Digital Ocean, Linode, and AWS won't help as these providers' IP ranges > are completely blocked in Turkmenistan. > > Recently, we learned from the Anti-censorship community[2] and via Tor user > support channels that Tor bridges running on residential connections > were working fine. Although they were blocked after some days or a week, > these bridges received a lot of users and were very important to keep > Turkmens connected. > > How to help Turkmens to access the Internet > =========================================== > > You can help Turkmens to access the free and open internet by running an > obfs4 Tor bridge! But here's the trick: you need to run it on a > residential connection -- you won't need a static IPv4 --, and it would > ideally be run on more robust hardware than just a Raspberry Pi > (although that can help, we have found they can get overloaded). > > You can set up an obfs4 bridge by following our official guide: > https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/ > > After you setup a new bridge, you can share your bridge line with the > Tor support team at frontdesk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and we will share it with > users. > > A complete bridge line is composed of: > > IP:OBFS4_PORT FINGERPRINT cert=obfs4-certificate iat-mode=0 > > Check this documentation to learn how to share your bridge line: > https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/post-install/ > > Just sharing your bridge fingerprint is not the best, but it's fine. > > You can read more about censorship against Tor in Turkmenistan here: > - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40029 > - Snowflake blocked: > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024 > > Thank you for your support in helping to keep the internet free and open > for everyone. > > Gus > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkmen_parliamentary_election > [2] https://ntc.party/c/internet-censorship-all-around-the-world/turkmenistan/17 > https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/80 > > -- > The Tor Project > Community Team Lead > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead
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