content: Can tor block a hidden service? I'm trying to understand to what extent censorship is possible, and actually done, in the tor network. I understand that there's no way to know who owns a hidden service or where it's located, however my question is - can an onion address b banned from there tor network (by the tor developers)? If not - why? If an address can be banned, do they do it for services with very harmful content? If not - why? And is it possible for specific nodes to ban specific addresses? If so - do they do it? And how does it affect a tor user? Will tor just automatically use other nodes, or it has to be manually configured not to use those nodes?