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by lambau 3792 days ago
Tor is a tool for circumventing censorship. HTTPS is an important part of using Tor to surf the web: 1) it protects the user from bad exits that could inject malicious javascript into a page and 2) some exits refuse HTTP connections and only allow HTTPS.

Maybe HTTPS makes it easier to censor in theory, but in practice it helps fight censorship by enabling Tor.