...Brave German Tor exit node operator arrested...
...I have sympathy for the guy because the police had trouble understanding his explanation, but really, he put himself in that situation by allowing random people to send bomb threats through his computer...
Versus what ... sending bomb threats through ... the MAIL? So, are you suggesting, equivalently, that we arrest the postal workers in their homes, confiscate their belongings, because they delivered the Unabomber's packages?
Doesn't anyone understand responsibility? (Start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility and get back to us in a few day's time!)
From <http://www.cnet.com/surveillance-state/8301-13739_1-9779225-46.html?ta g=head>
"...Tor is a privacy tool designed to allow users to communicate and browse anonymously on the Internet. It's endorsed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ and other civil liberties groups as a method for whistle blowers and human rights workers to communicate with journalists. Tor provides anonymous Web-browsing software to hundreds of thousands of users around the world, according to its developers. The largest numbers of users are in the United States, the European Union, and China..."
"...The victim here was a guy accepting risk to give people...ability to practice free speech. You are not at risk, but he is/was..."