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posted by takyon on Friday November 08 2019, @06:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the big-dark dept.

BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

The BBC has made its international news website available via the Tor network, in a bid to thwart censorship attempts.

The Tor browser is privacy-focused software used to access the dark web. The browser can obscure who is using it and what data is being accessed, which can help people avoid government surveillance and censorship. Countries including China, Iran and Vietnam are among those who have tried to block access to the BBC News website or programmes.

Instead of visiting bbc.co.uk/news or bbc.com/news, users of the Tor browser can visit the new bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion web address. Clicking this web address will not work in a regular web browser.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @02:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @02:33PM (#917864)

    when sky-legion takes down all the dns root servers, https://www.bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion/ [www.bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion] will be the site to report it ^_^