streisandeffect/streisand

Streisand is an automation tool that sets up a personal censorship-circumvention server on a cloud provider with a single command. The problem it targets: in many countries, governments, ISPs, or corporations block access to websites and online services. Breaking through those restrictions normally means either paying for a commercial VPN service (which can itself be blocked or monitored) or spending days configuring your own server securely. Streisand automates that complex server setup. You point Streisand at a cloud provider account, Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, Linode, Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace, and it automatically provisions a new server and installs multiple VPN and privacy protocols: WireGuard, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, OpenConnect, OpenSSH with a proxy, a private Tor bridge relay, and others. Not all need to be installed at once, you choose which. Because some protocols get blocked in certain regions, having several options gives you fallback choices. At the end of the process, Streisand generates an HTML file with clear setup instructions you can share with friends or family who need access. You would use this if you or people you know need reliable internet access in a region with network censorship, and you want to self-host the solution rather than trusting a third-party VPN. Some Unix command-line familiarity is required. The automation is written in Shell and uses Ansible.