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You all know the importance of Tor bridges for circumventing censorship, and today we’re calling on our community to help censored users by running them. Bridges are relatively easy, low-risk, and low bandwidth to operate, but they have a big impact on people where the internet is under oppressive control.

We now have new documentation for how to set them up. We have guides for several Linux distributions, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and docker [1]. If you set up a bridge before September 30, you could be one of 10 bridge operators to be randomly selected for a Tor t-shirt. More details can be found in phw’s post [2].

If you cannot set up a bridge now, you can still help.  You can share your support of running or using Tor bridges on social media with the hashtag #RunTorBridges [3] and a link to the post.

Please also share the post with any friends or communities you think would be able to help. If there’s someone you think would be helpful for us to reach out to, please let me know.

Thanks for your support.

Best,

Steph

[1] https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/

[2] https://blog.torproject.org/run-tor-bridges-defend-open-internet

[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/RunTorBridges?src=hashtag_click

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