That cost of doing business is unacceptably high. It amounts to, "run a tor exit node, lose your 4th amendment rights... and your 5th amendment rights, if you

That cost of doing business is unacceptably high. It amounts to, "run a tor exit node, lose your 4th amendment rights... and your 5th amendment rights, if you want to keep your hardware... and consider your hardware compromised." Who's going to run a tor exit node if that's the legal precedent? It's also pointless. While it's possible for a CP collector or distributor to run an exit node as cover, why would they when they can just use tor for real for all their CP dealings? Think of the ultimate consequences. Such a legal precedent would have CP and other criminal activity causing more collateral damage rather than less. If all it takes to get most tor exit node operators to shut them down is engaging in illegal activities that will draw the attention of the authorities, then I can imagine a lot of countries' intelligence and military services would have an interest in engaging in criminal activities using U.S. tor exit nodes to reduce the available pool of tor exit nodes.