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Community Snapshot—September

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And I’m just passing time with our animals until then

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Tor Project blog

A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

Members of the Tor community have asked us to explain how continued collaboration with Mullvad fits with the Tor Project's human rights mission. We have heard both calls to end the relationship and concerns about what that would mean for Tor's work and the communities affected. We want to explain our decision to continue our technical collaboration with Mullvad and acknowledge the difficult trade-offs behind it. Our decision followed a thorough due diligence process that involved extensive discussions with community members, staff, and the board, a staff survey, and detailed financial analysis and scenario planning.

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  2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 187 Out of 200: Reminding Ourselves of the Great Damage Garrett Did to Linux (for Microsoft)
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  4. What's Wrong with Microsoft's GitHub, New Article by Jacob Bachmeyer and Richard Stallman
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  5. EBay is Going to Die Soon
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  6. Red Hat PIPs. The Only Question is, How Many?
    Insiders know what's coming soon
  7. This Week The Register MS Published a Page With "AI" 34 Times in It and It Was, as Usual, Paid SPAM!
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  8. General Assembly (Meeting of All Staff) Starts in Hour Ago to Discuss Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO), Strikes to Last Until End of 2026 (If Not Further)
    The media absolutely does not cover this and that's intentional
  9. Cancel Culture is a Cancer That Harms Democracy, Justice, and Science. It's Designed to Help Corporations Vanish Their Critics.
    "Codes of Conduct" sounds benign; in practice, however, it is not
  10. Links 17/09/2026: Class Action Lawsuit Over GAFAM's "NameTag" and Automattic Hides What It Did to CEO Mullenweg (or Why)
    Links for the day
  11. Gemini Links 17/09/2026: Google Signals the End, ROOPHLOCH Coverage, EBay Uses Offensive Bots to Falsely Accuse Users of Stuff
    Links for the day
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
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  13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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