# danoctavian/awesome-anti-censorship

curated list of open-source anti-censorship tools

Repository: https://github.com/danoctavian/awesome-anti-censorship
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-anti-censorship
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: censorship-circumvention, censorship, firewall, awesome, decentralized, tunnel, proxy, anticensorship, p2p
Last push: 2025-08-02T11:45:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 34, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3999, "days_push": 396, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1445, forks 115 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:45.059994+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of open-source tools and readings for fighting Internet censorship. It catalogs censorship bypass tools, anonymity networks, tunnels, firewall analysis, and decentralized systems.

## Use cases
- find open-source tools to bypass internet censorship
- discover proxy and tunnel software like shadowsocks or v2ray
- learn about anonymity networks such as Tor and I2P
- research firewall analysis and traffic obfuscation techniques
- find privacy-focused operating systems and messaging systems
- explore decentralized and p2p anti-censorship systems
- find research papers on censorship circumvention

## When to choose
- you want a curated starting point for anti-censorship tooling
- you are researching censorship circumvention techniques and related literature
- you need to compare proxies, tunnels, and anonymity networks

## When to avoid
- you need a ready-to-run tool rather than a list of links
- you need maintained, production-grade software rather than a catalog of varied projects

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, vpn, privacy, networking, security
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking, security, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: anti-censorship, curated-list, tor, shadowsocks, v2ray, steganography, deniable-encryption, p2p

## Member repositories
- danoctavian/awesome-anti-censorship (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.059994+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:36:13.738091+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/danoctavian/awesome-anti-censorship (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.059994+00:00, sha 98ae58169207)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.