Why is a hidden service needed? If someone can access onion websites, they can access any site. All Propublica would need to do is make sure they don&#x27;t block tor exit nodes (some CDNs like cloudlfare will).<p>I don&#x27;t see what benefits there are of having a hidden service if you don&#x27;t need to hide. The only thing would be encouraging&#x2F;enforcing safe usage, but that doesn&#x27;t <i>enable</i> anything, only forces people to use security that was already available.<p>(To be clear, I&#x27;m only talking about hidden services, not tor in general.)