• Wrapping my brain around Cleanfeed

    From Anonymous@anon@anon.anon to news.admin.peering,news.software.misc on Mon Sep 8 13:12:35 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    I have a bit of time to sit down and try to figure out Cleanfeed. The syntax shown in the docs is garish and scary.

    Please reply by posting some actual production Cleanfeed configuration that I can examine and study.

    Thank you.

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  • From noreply@noreply@dirge.harmsk.com to news.admin.peering on Mon Sep 8 20:48:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:12:35 -0500, Anonymous <anon@anon.anon> wrote:
    examine and study

    for example, filter news:alt.privacy.anon-server from has gab
    (using lux-feed1.newsdeef.eu, news.blueworldhosting.com, etc.)

    admin@gabrix.ath.cx (G)
    admin@gabrix.ath.cx (Gab)
    admin@nomail.com (Gab)
    anon@gabrix.invalid (anonymous)
    anon@gabrix.invalid (scoty)
    anon@remailergabrix.ath.cx (g)
    Ban DU <bandu@nym.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Cloaked <cloaked@nym.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab -Otagifs- <send-mail-to-gpg-key80231A90@noauth.invalid>
    Gab <0x80231A90@noauth.invalid>
    Gab <admin@gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab <gab@domain.invalid>
    Gab <gabriele@riseup.net>
    gab <gabrix@gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab <gabrix@NOSPAM_gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab <gabrix@NOSPAMremailer.dyndns.org>
    Gab <gabrix@remailer.dyndns.org>
    Gab <gabx@mail2tor.com>
    Gab <krozus@tormail.net>
    Gab <noauth@autistici.org>
    Gab <noauth@domain.invalid>
    Gab <noauth@gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab <none@domain.invalid>
    Gab <send-mail-to-gpg-key80231A90@domain.invalid>
    Gab <unklean@domain.invalid>
    Gab <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>
    Gab <usenet-180709@news.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab <usenet-190709@news.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab <usenet-220709@news.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gab <usenet-240709@somewhere.invalid>
    Gab Anonymous_X Admin <remailer-admin@No_Spam_Please.smtp.remailer.dyndns.org>
    Gab_Noauth <send-mail-to-gpg-key80231A90@noauth.invalid>
    gab@noauth.invalid (Gab)
    gab@nomail.no (Gab)
    Gabriele <not-for-mail@domain.invalid>
    Gabriele Salati <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>
    Gabriele Toulouse <g48rix@googlemail.com>
    gabrix <gabrix@domain.invalid-not-for-mail>
    gabrix <gabrix@gabrix.ath.cx>
    gabrix <gabrix@news.gabrix.ath.cx>
    gabrix <noauth@autistici.org>
    gabrix <noauth666@riseup.net>
    gabrix <remailer-admin@remailer.gabrix.ath.cx>
    gabrix <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>
    gabrix <usenet@gabrix.ath.cx>
    "Gabrix.ath.cx OP" <admin@gabrix.ath.cx>
    Gabrix Noauth - Gab <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>
    gabrix@gabrix.ath.cx (Gab)
    Gabx <fake@email.addr>
    Gabx <personne@zero.null>
    Gabx <victor@domain.invalid>
    Gabx <00000@zero.null>
    Gabx <bmux-onion@secmail.pro>
    Gabx <dogfromhell666@mail2tor.com>
    Gabx <gab@gmail.com>
    Gabx <gabriel1@virebent.art>
    Gabx <Gabx@tcpreset.invalid>
    Gabx <info@tcpreset.invalid>
    Gabx <info@verebent.art>
    Gabx <invalid@gmail.com>
    Gabx <my@email.address>
    Gabx <my@own.email>
    Gabx <nessuno@domain.invalid>
    Gabx <nessuno@niente.null>
    Gabx <nessuno@tcpreset.invalid>
    Gabx <nessuno@u44mxsvwctps3fxvgmr2fuzuzn74gzatiwuwyqpyr4rk74ipfsercfqd.onion>
    Gabx <nessuno@virebent.invalid>
    Gabx <nobody@email.not>
    Gabx <nobody@n4vjl2rfnmf3ctjs.onion>
    Gabx <nobody@niente.null>
    Gabx <nobody@yamn.paranoici.org>
    Gabx <noreply@mixmin.net>
    Gabx <null@tcpreset.invalid>
    Gabx <tcpreset@virebent.invalid>
    Gabx <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>
    Gabx <virebent@tcpreset.invalid>
    Gabx <zeman@antifa>
    Gabx Kdog <noreply@mixmin.net>
    Gabx Kdog <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>
    Gabx@nessun.rimorso
    Gabx@tcpreset.invalid
    Generic Poster <generic_poster@nym.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Jybril <gabx@mail2tor.com>
    Neverwhere <neverwhere@nym.gabrix.ath.cx>
    noauth <anon@remailer.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Noauth <gab@noauth.invalid>
    NoAuth <nobody@gabrix.ath.cx>
    noauth <remailer@mail.gabrix.ath.cx>
    noauth@autistici.org (Gab)
    noauth@domain.invalid (Gab)
    noauth@nomail.null (Gab)
    none <""gabrix\"@(none).invalid">
    None <gabrix@gabrix.ath.cx>
    None <gabrix73@googlemail.com>
    none@gabrix.localhost (Gab)
    Null <admin@gabrix.ath.cx>
    OmniMix <om@nym.gabrix.ath.cx>
    Otagifs <usenet-010809@news.gabrix.ath.cx>
    remailer-admin@mail.gabrix.ath.cx (Gab)
    Test_Gab <test@test.invalid>
    ...
    (etcetera etcetera etcetera . . . eelbash)

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  • From noreply@noreply@dirge.harmsk.com to news.admin.peering on Mon Sep 8 21:48:16 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:12:35 -0500, Anonymous <anon@anon.anon> wrote:
    reply by posting

    e.g. (it's a very long list)

    Date: 27 Oct 2006 14:13:28 GMT
    Path: archive.newsdeef.eu!mbox2nntp-alt.privacy.anon-server.20141023.mbox.gz
    !number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com
    !nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!10.218.45.202.MISMATCH
    !newspump.sol.net!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com
    !nr2.newsreader.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
    Message-ID: <45421408$0$31269$ed362ca5@nr2.newsreader.com>
    Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
    Subject: Re: ATTN: Box (?)
    From: Anon User <anon@anon.anon>
    X-Complaints: admin@eelbash.org
    ^^^^^^^
    of all your aliases "eelbash" is the one that stuck)

    Path: archive.newsdeef.eu!mbox2nntp-alt.privacy.anon-server.20141023.mbox.gz
    !intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com
    !border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed2.news.rcn.net
    !feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de
    !w1141182onhn.ttg.internet.look.CA!not-for-mail
    From: Eelbash Admin <Admin@eelbash.yi.org>
    Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
    Subject: Eelbash Mini-Nym Temporarily Down
    Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:46:54 -0500
    Lines: 33
    NNTP-Posting-Host: w1141182onhn.ttg.internet.look.ca (216.154.65.55) >Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1076535924 39636104 D 216.154.65.55 ([133599]) >X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572
    X-No-Archive: yes
    Message-ID: <2l8l201bqkvsk9jmg9at1ig634a3tjk3eo@4ax.com>

    The Eelbash (formerly Congo) Mini-nym is down because of the loss of
    the bogg.dynu.com domain.
    I will tweak the code to keep this sort of thing from affecting it in
    the future.
    My apologies for the interruption in service; I look forward to
    serving you again in the near future.
    In the meantime, please don't forget the excellent services offered
    by the Eelbash remailer, a fine old name in remailers.
    24x7, low latency, full from headers - no disclaimer,
    anti-flood/anti-abuse measures in place to make the remailer a
    responsible community entity.
    Give it a try: send your message to eelbash@eelbash.yi.org and see
    how quickly it is delivered.
    [end quoted "eelbash" excerpts]

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  • From noel@deletethis@invalid.lan to news.admin.peering on Tue Sep 9 17:20:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:48:16 -0400, D wrote:


    On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:12:35 -0500, Anonymous <anon@anon.anon> wrote:
    From: Anonymous <anon@anon.anon>

    Injection-Info: posting-host="3OT6blRLqEGNVXpaOv/
    mvA.user.paganini.bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A";
    X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3
    X-TOR-Router: sha256:MzcuMTE0LjYzLjU= --


    reply by posting

    e.g. (it's a very long list)


    e.e.g. its asking "please do my homework for me"

    must be school holidays
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  • From noreply@noreply@dirge.harmsk.com to news.admin.peering on Tue Sep 9 11:03:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On 9 Sep 2025 17:20:51 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
    On Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:48:16 -0400, D wrote:
    On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:12:35 -0500, Anonymous <anon@anon.anon> wrote:
    From: Anonymous <anon@anon.anon>
    Injection-Info: posting-host="3OT6blRLqEGNVXpaOv/ >mvA.user.paganini.bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A";
    X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3
    X-TOR-Router: sha256:MzcuMTE0LjYzLjU= --

    the op's full header (injection-info: paganini.bofh.team) . . .

    Path: news...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net
    !newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!tor-network!not-for-mail
    From: Anonymous <anon@anon.anon>
    Newsgroups: news.admin.peering,news.software.misc
    Subject: Wrapping my brain around Cleanfeed
    Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:12:35 -0500
    Organization: To protect and to server
    Message-ID: <109n67u$9grf$2@paganini.bofh.team>
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    Injection-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 18:11:10 -0000 (UTC)
    Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="312175";
    posting-host="3OT6blRLqEGNVXpaOv/mvA.user.paganini.bofh.team";
    mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team";
    posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A";
    X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3
    X-TOR-Router: sha256:MzcuMTE0LjYzLjU= --
    Xref: news... news.admin.peering:2862 news.software.misc:81

    e.g. (it's a very long list)

    e.e.g. its asking "please do my homework for me"
    must be school holidays

    if only, but in reality "troll farm" operatives been (ab)using every usenet server available (pay/free/anonymous remailers/pseudonymous tormailers, m2n
    and web-based usenet gateways/etc.) for over three decades, and paganini is
    no exception, whereby the phrase "eternal september" (popularized after its namesake usenet article was posted 1994-02-09 <2j9vhj$hms@whale.st.usm.edu>) reflected the consensus that the flood of mischief-makers was already never ending thirty-one years ago . . . operation eternal september, infiltration
    and occupation of usenet newsgroups (collectively known as the "troll farm") has thus continued with relentless attacks on active newsgroups to this day

    among their literally millions of aliases (a.k.a. sock puppets/nymshifters), "eelbash" became a well-known and familiar euphemism/epithet for censorship
    in the news:alt.privacy.anon-server newsgroup, but every active unmoderated newsgroup has been under continual "troll farm" occupation since cir. ~1994, even so, usenet was initially designed by contractors to withstand calamity
    so it has remained popular, mostly for its plain text and binary newsgroups that are unmoderated, so if you like the untamed wild west, usenet is ideal

    some nntp servers may selectively block/nocem/cancel article headers/bodies
    for whatever causes, whether deliberate, inadvertent, technical issues, etc. but most nntp servers tend to be more liberal than not so do what thou wilt, recommend never cross-post, shun vulgarity, and always try to stay on-topic, and if any server becomes unusable for any reason, simply switch to another server(s)... above all else, avoid politics and religion, it's a black hole

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  • From Stefan Claas@pollux@yeffqiea4xtcu6woyab6z6bz4oehisfuzgtmk4e277bydq25p7nha7ad.onion to news.admin.peering on Tue Sep 9 23:20:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    D wrote:

    if only, but in reality "troll farm" operatives been (ab)using every usenet server available (pay/free/anonymous remailers/pseudonymous tormailers, m2n

    Have you forgotten what I said recently? I will let the Tor community know
    that you still say tormailers are pseudonymous and public IP address/Domain facing store and randomly forwarding old remailer technology is anonymous.
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  • From Stefan Claas@pollux@yeffqiea4xtcu6woyab6z6bz4oehisfuzgtmk4e277bydq25p7nha7ad.onion to news.admin.peering on Wed Sep 10 07:14:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    Stefan Claas wrote:
    D wrote:

    if only, but in reality "troll farm" operatives been (ab)using every usenet server available (pay/free/anonymous remailers/pseudonymous tormailers, m2n

    Have you forgotten what I said recently? I will let the Tor community know that you still say tormailers are pseudonymous and public IP address/Domain facing store and randomly forwarding old remailer technology is anonymous.

    I have a much better idea, I will edit soon the Wikipedia page about "anonymous"
    remailers, which is more effective, since the Tor community is not using Usenet.
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  • From noel@deletethis@invalid.lan to news.admin.peering on Wed Sep 10 18:42:27 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:03:46 -0400, D wrote:


    the op's full header (injection-info: paganini.bofh.team) . . .

    Path: news...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net
    !newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!tor-network!not-for-mail
    From: Anonymous <anon@anon.anon>
    Newsgroups: news.admin.peering,news.software.misc Subject: Wrapping my
    brain around Cleanfeed Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:12:35 -0500
    Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <109n67u$9grf$2@paganini.bofh.team>
    Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 18:11:10 -0000 (UTC)
    Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="312175";
    posting-host="3OT6blRLqEGNVXpaOv/mvA.user.paganini.bofh.team";
    mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team";
    posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A";
    X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-TOR-Router: sha256:MzcuMTE0LjYzLjU= --
    Xref: news... news.admin.peering:2862 news.software.misc:81

    e.g. (it's a very long list)

    e.e.g. its asking "please do my homework for me"
    must be school holidays

    if only, but in reality "troll farm" operatives been (ab)using every
    usenet server available (pay/free/anonymous remailers/pseudonymous tormailers, m2n and web-based usenet gateways/etc.) for over three
    decades, and paganini is no exception, whereby the phrase "eternal
    september" (popularized after its namesake usenet article was posted

    Guess they just dont dont appear in the more techy groups I sub to, or
    they are using unattractive subjects or non interesting threads for teh
    most part, and yes, I'm very aware of how the term eternal september came about, I've been around that long (longer actually) :)


    "eelbash" became a well-known and familiar euphemism/epithet for
    censorship in the news:alt.privacy.anon-server newsgroup, but every

    Don't read that group, or any along those lines, as above, only select
    techy groups, well, plus some obvious groups you'd find server admins in.

    Too many loonies on usenet, usually if it was email id call them
    anonymous cowards, but I dont think that of them on usenet, this is the
    wild west with many crazies, and I agree with those protecting their identities, our server has offered such protection to all posters, hence
    why the nntp posting header says the server name - I do have a post log
    so I can match an IP to a sender just like most other servers so if I
    need to identify someone... but in the 30 years I've been doing this,
    never needed to, using tor protects that so I cant tell who the offender
    is and tor would allow anyone in, the reason I have the access policies I
    do is to not attract troublmakers, its sad, because we all know many tor
    users use tor becasue they have a geniune fear for their life and not for committing crimes.



    some nntp servers may selectively block/nocem/cancel article
    headers/bodies for whatever causes, whether deliberate, inadvertent, technical issues, etc.
    but most nntp servers tend to be more liberal than not so do what thou

    Yep, I've made it known in some groups, probably this one too, that we do
    not honor cancels, supercedes, or nocems, we did once, back until the
    abuse of said functions shitstorm started in mid-late 90's, when I and I
    think most sane server admins killed all those functions off, those
    issueing nocems today have better credibility, but nah never coming back
    here, I've still witnessed in these groups nocem abuses as recent as
    months ago.


    and if any server becomes unusable for any reason, simply switch to
    another server(s)... above all else, avoid politics and religion, it's a black hole

    It used to be fun when I was in my younger years, so easy to bait the
    idiots, I guess got older, life and family got in the road, the rest is history :)
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  • From noreply@noreply@dirge.harmsk.com to news.admin.peering on Wed Sep 10 10:24:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.peering

    On 10 Sep 2025 18:42:27 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
    On Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:03:46 -0400, D wrote:
    the op's full header (injection-info: paganini.bofh.team) . . .
    snip
    e.g. (it's a very long list)

    e.e.g. its asking "please do my homework for me"
    must be school holidays

    if only, but in reality "troll farm" operatives been (ab)using every
    usenet server available (pay/free/anonymous remailers/pseudonymous
    tormailers, m2n and web-based usenet gateways/etc.) for over three
    decades, and paganini is no exception, whereby the phrase "eternal
    september" (popularized after its namesake usenet article was posted

    Guess they just dont dont appear in the more techy groups I sub to, or
    they are using unattractive subjects or non interesting threads for teh
    most part, and yes, I'm very aware of how the term eternal september came >about, I've been around that long (longer actually) :)

    "eelbash" became a well-known and familiar euphemism/epithet for
    censorship in the news:alt.privacy.anon-server newsgroup, but every

    Don't read that group, or any along those lines, as above, only select
    techy groups, well, plus some obvious groups you'd find server admins in. >Too many loonies on usenet, usually if it was email id call them
    anonymous cowards, but I dont think that of them on usenet, this is the
    wild west with many crazies, and I agree with those protecting their >identities, our server has offered such protection to all posters, hence
    why the nntp posting header says the server name - I do have a post log
    so I can match an IP to a sender just like most other servers so if I
    need to identify someone... but in the 30 years I've been doing this,
    never needed to, using tor protects that so I cant tell who the offender
    is and tor would allow anyone in, the reason I have the access policies I
    do is to not attract troublmakers, its sad, because we all know many tor >users use tor becasue they have a geniune fear for their life and not for >committing crimes.

    some nntp servers may selectively block/nocem/cancel article
    headers/bodies for whatever causes, whether deliberate, inadvertent,
    technical issues, etc.
    but most nntp servers tend to be more liberal than not so do what thou

    Yep, I've made it known in some groups, probably this one too, that we do >not honor cancels, supercedes, or nocems, we did once, back until the
    abuse of said functions shitstorm started in mid-late 90's, when I and I >think most sane server admins killed all those functions off, those
    issueing nocems today have better credibility, but nah never coming back >here, I've still witnessed in these groups nocem abuses as recent as
    months ago.

    and if any server becomes unusable for any reason, simply switch to
    another server(s)... above all else, avoid politics and religion, it's a
    black hole

    It used to be fun when I was in my younger years, so easy to bait the >idiots, I guess got older, life and family got in the road, the rest is >history :)

    sans anonymous remailer chains tor is pseudonymous, eavesdroppers honeypot, e.g., these two distinctive key words, "surveillance and censorship", have sharply disparate meanings and do not belong in the same sentence together

    e.g., social media is moderated, routinely monitored and censored, whereas unmoderated usenet newsgroups are also routinely monitored but are largely uncensored . . . by stark contrast, their entire planet is under continual surveillance by big brother, the universal military intelligence community and infrastructure, which is lightyears beyond public scrutiny or exposure

    defacto anonymity means nonexistence, short of that it means caveat emptor, casual users of anonymous remailers, tor, etc. are probably in less danger
    than serious users of any technology . . . it really is a jungle out there

    (using Tor Browser 14.5.6) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tor+gaining+popularity&ia=web&assist=true
    Tor is gaining popularity as a tool for anonymous internet browsing and >communication, particularly among users seeking to protect their privacy from >surveillance and censorship. Its use has expanded beyond illicit activities to
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
    include legitimate purposes, such as enabling secure communications for activists
    and journalists. 99firms.com Tor Project
    Overview of Tor's Popularity
    Tor, short for The Onion Router, is a network designed to enable anonymous >communication online. It has gained significant popularity over the years for >various reasons, including privacy concerns and the need to bypass censorship. >Reasons for Increased Popularity
    Privacy and Anonymity
    User Base: Over two million people use Tor daily, including political
    activists, journalists, and everyday users seeking privacy.
    Protection from Surveillance: Tor helps users avoid tracking by advertisers
    and ISPs, making it appealing in an age of increasing digital surveillance.
    Circumventing Censorship
    Access to Blocked Content: Tor allows users in authoritarian countries to
    access restricted websites, making it a vital tool for free expression.
    Government Support: Interestingly, the U.S. government has funded Tor's
    development, recognizing its importance for secure communications.
    User Demographics
    Geographic Distribution
    Top Countries: Russia has the highest number of daily Tor users, followed by
    the U.S. and Iran. This indicates a global interest in privacy tools.
    Usage Patterns
    Legal vs. Illicit Use: While Tor is often associated with the dark web, only
    about 6.7% of users access illicit content. The majority use it for legitimate
    purposes, such as protecting personal data.
    Conclusion
    Tor's popularity continues to grow as more people become aware of the importance
    of online privacy and the need to circumvent censorship. Its unique features and
    the backing of organizations highlight its role as a crucial tool for maintaining
    freedom on the internet.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology arXiv
    [end quoted "search assist"]

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