jayjg schrieb:
I appreciate why someone in China would want to use tor. Would any of that apply to someone in a Western democracy?
Living in a Western democracy doesn't necessarily mean that you can surf the web or use internet services freely, look at all those blocks for Bittorrent, the dozens of blocks for Nazi hosters, and especially the German court decision about YouPorn, which actually led to >2 million websites being invisible by Arcor customers; they can only be helped through proxys (though I don't think watching porn via proxys is good).
And please also do not forget that some people indeed care about their privacy - what many people unfortunately do not, and so freedom passes more and more away.
Marco