BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

[Moosedrool]

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

Tor is a privacy-focused web browser used to access pages on 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.

The dark web copy of the BBC News website will be the international edition, as seen from outside the UK.

It will include foreign language services such as BBC Persian, BBC Arabic and BBC Russian.

But UK-only content and services such as BBC iPlayer will not be accessible, due to broadcast rights.

BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

In a bid to thwart censorship attempts, the BBC News website is now available via Tor.

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[NarrowBandFtw]

like anyone using Tor gives a toss about the irrelevant BBC

they might search for BBC from time to time, but that's not the news they're looking for, rather big black c...

 

[RaptorSA]

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

You mean the same censorship that stems from the leftist brain disease that the BBC itself is so adept at spreading?
The BBC of today is not even a shadow of its former glory.
Sad.

 

[Gordon_R]

Try reading the article. Its for countries that have censorship such as China, Iran and Vietnam. It has nothing to do with other countries.

OP: I read the article and was going to post a link, but its a waste of time in the news section...