I can't empathize. With great power comes great responsibility. If you're protecting someone else's privacy by publicly running an exit node for Tor under your name, that's expected.
The open Wi-Fi analogy doesn't fly here. It's more than pure unawareness, you need to purposefully install Tor and route anonymous traffic to the internet. That entails being held accountable for what this traffic is used for.
If an analogy is needed, the right one is giving the key for your P.O. box to anyone with a mask, then complaining you're being charged because they've found child pornography there.
> Why does routing someone's traffic make you accountable for the traffic? Because someone needs to be accountable?
The evidence is on him now, so he has to prove it wasn't. Given Tor's anonymity, that's rather difficult, but it's his problem. Which is stupid in the first place, because he dug himself on this hole, and that's why I can't empathize.
If this guy isn't held responsible for the content, you would be creating a loophole in the law.
If I wanted to distribute illegal content safely, I could just run a Tor exit node and claim that the illegal content originated from somewhere within Tor instead of from my machines.
I think a more reasonable analogy would be someone selling drugs in your stores parking lot. Your opening a private resource up for public use and someone is using that resource to break the law. However, I have no idea what the case law is and while I suspect the owners are left alone in the vast majority of cases, there may be some culpability.
>you need to purposefully install Tor and route anonymous traffic to the internet. That entails being held accountable for what this traffic is used for.
This is utterly ridiculous. An ISP has to go to a hell of a lot more effort than that. Does that also entail being held accountable for what the traffic is used for?
The guy most likely installed Tor imagining helping groups like wikileaks, not Jimmy Savile.
The open Wi-Fi analogy doesn't fly here. It's more than pure unawareness, you need to purposefully install Tor and route anonymous traffic to the internet. That entails being held accountable for what this traffic is used for.
If an analogy is needed, the right one is giving the key for your P.O. box to anyone with a mask, then complaining you're being charged because they've found child pornography there.