[1][2][3] The network was started in June 2010 by German privacy activist and advocate Moritz Bartl and currently transfers up to 7.4 GB/s (~59.2 Gb/s) of exit node traffic as of May 2022.
[1][7] On June 20, 2018, Bavarian police raided the home of the board members of the German non-profit Zwiebelfreunde, "Friends of the Onion,"[8] (part of torservers.net).
[10] The police claim the raid was prompted by a blog post from an unrelated activist that promised violence against an upcoming Alternative for Germany convention in Augsburg.
[12] Riseup Collective is based in Seattle in the United States, and reported publicly that Zwiebelfreunde does not run its service.
[13] On August 23 the German court at Landgericht München ruled that the raid and seizures was illegal.