Hi,

tl,dr: The ministry of finance of the German state of Thuringia advises against the blocking of the Tor network.

Longer version: In march I tried to reach URL:https://tmasgff.de/, the website of the ministry of social affairs of Thuringia. However their provider, Alfahosting, was blocking Tor traffic. So I reached out to the ministry and asked why this is so. They answered that there is a huge amount of hacking traffic coming from the Tor network. That's Why all traffic coming from Tor is blocked.

So I made an FOIA-like request (Thuringia has a transparency law) and asked how many attacks they saw from the Tor network and from the non-Tor network: URL:http://fdstaat23zv6kdmntgkvdzkr7hipl5oqswwi3xawzkj2w2gwsbxmrwyd.onion/a/181821

After some back and forth they told me, that their provider won't answer the request for "security reasons". The ministry requested a statement from the CI(S)O of the state which resides inside the ministry of finance. He answered that providing information to users from the Tor network is no special risk and the ministry won't recommend blocking the Tor network. Since the the site URL:https://tmasgff.de/ is available.

Best,