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c0lo [soylentnews.org] writes:

Less the 3 years after the Austrian police raided the house and confiscated the computers [zdnet.com] of a man operating a Tor exit node, the Austrian justice decided that the operator of a Tor exit node is also co-responsible for any illegal traffic [network23.org] exiting the node.

In an ironic twist (of fate or of faith?), the verdict comes very close to the date EFF decided to run a series [eff.org] of FAs trying to convince people [eff.org] that everybody should run Tor [eff.org]

What doesn't fit my mind: why aren't the phone service providers made responsible for any premeditated criminal act arranged/discussed over their network?
Why are the only Tor exit nodes co-responsible for the illegal traffic? After all, the operators of TOR bridges and all the ISP-es etc carried that traffic.

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