Add FAQ entry regarding censorship avoidance

[dguido]

Censorship avoidance is not a goal of the Algo VPN project. We should explain why that is.

[michael-myers]

I could work on this but first, my guesses at the rationale.

• Because censorship also happens on the social media platforms and sites you would access through a VPN?
• Because in China it is illegal to operate an unlicensed VPN, they are banned in Russia, and the Algo project does not want to condone illegal activity?
• If you are disseminating information in defiance of censorship, that would put you at risk of prosecution in your country, and a VPN alone is not enough protection.

References:

• https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/07/russia-vpn-ban-is-a-major-blow-to-internet-freedom/
• https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/30/apple-issues-statement-regarding-removal-of-unlicensed-vpn-apps-in-china/

[Hamled]

@michael-myers I am also interested in getting clarification on why Algo does not support censorship avoidance.

I believe however, that the explanation I found a while back when I was last looking at it, is simply for separation of concerns reasons. The point of Algo is to be secure out-of-the-box, which is only feasible if the Algo team is on-top of every piece of software used by the project.

Unfortunately, because censorship avoidance techniques add a whole new layer of software libraries and complications to what Algo already has, supporting those techniques would come at the cost of possibly making the whole project less secure.

@dguido Is this an accurate representation of the Algo team's reasoning and/or has anything changed about that since early 2017?