And I can answer: "There are torrent sites that you can do, it's a matter of searching on those sites."
With the exception that you should never suggest someone to search a mixer on the Internet, unless you want them to get scammed.
Like, we can't expect anyone to migrate to Russia for simply running a forum.
I meant to host the forum elsewhere, not migrate elsewhere. I'm not a lawyer though. It's possible that as a US resident, hosting an illegally operating site in Africa could lead to legal consequences in the US as well.
But there already exist trustless and decentralized ways to mix coins.
Sure, but this in-forum censorship makes me wonder. If I don't have the right to even talk about anti-government activities like this instance, how valuable decentralized alternatives are?
I know what you'll say, theymos wasn't blackmailed to enact this type of censorship, and that it has been done as precaution. It's just that, from my perspective, privacy-protecting tools become even less available as time goes by. This year,
a bill was proposed to discriminate against any coin which isn't controlled inside a KYC-ed exchange. Mixers fall apart, one after the other. Open-source, privacy-proclaimed services like Wasabi partners with anti-privacy organizations. Where are we heading to?