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 anyone 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 a legally operating site in Africa could lead to legal consequences in the US.
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 less and 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 partner with anti-privacy organizations. Where are we heading to?
very likely a George Orwell 1984 style world.