I added a little section warning users that connecting to Freenode through Tor is never anonymous. It does potentially offer some level of privacy from ISPs/governments although the reason you have to follow these directions in the first place is because you can't connect anonymously. It will also allow you to bypass censorship. What you are doing is identifying yourself to the Freenode server through Tor. If you need anonymity check out another IRC network. There are some that are Tor friendly and don't require this identification. It probably wouldn't hurt for someone to look into which networks users can connect to without identification and are Tor friendly/supporters of Tor.

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