My guess would be the unrest in Iran and the regimes attempts to shut down the internet in that country to prevent organisation?
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This happened early December:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/australia/australia-social-media-ban-starts-intl-hnk
Platforms are checking ages via live video selfies, email addresses or official documents. According to Yoti, an age verification company whose clients include Meta, most users choose a video selfie which uses facial data points to estimate age.
I read about it, but I'm not sure those companies allow signups from Tor.
Perhaps some do. Reddit has or at least had an onion address.
But last I checked, they were blocking Tor IP addresses... even on their onion address. Someone out there had to be smoking something.
I can imagine the Tor address used to be legit but now after banning vpns they banned onion addresses too completely forgetting that their own onion url exists.
So there's a reason, but then again not even realizing it still exists is exceptionally sloppy and ambiguous.
You don't need to sign up, just appear to not be from the cousin fucking parts of America.
the cousin fucking parts of America.
Is this a reference to Australia?
I have noticed the same and would also like to know why there has been such a spike,does anyone know?
The only thing I can think of is America invading Venezuela and kidnapping their leader. Despot or not, it's still a sovereign nation and that invasion has likely got a lot of people spooked.
It's usually a tactic that you do after war were declared.
This is straight up Mafia shit
I saw it mentioned a few times lately. If I had to venture a guess, I’d say because people are both talking about it more and governments are way overstepping there bounds on censorship and tracking.
Biggest thing in the last day is American invading Venezuela and kidnapping their leader.