Tor is NOT what you think it is

Hardcoded "Directory Authorities" control all voting on the entire Tor network:

First let's analyze how many Relays ware on the network currently:

cat tor.json | jq -c .[] | wc -l
5828

Next, how many of these relays provide contact information:

cat tor.json | jq -c .[].contact | grep -v ^null | wc -l
4459

Let's now analyze the frequency of duplicate cntact information:

cat tor.json | jq -rc .[].contact | grep -v ^null | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > relay_contact_frequency.txt

You can view these stats here, but based on these results, some interesting observations are made: