The point would be the stronger anonymity offered by Tor, whereas with VPNs, you're basically at the mercy of the service providers not to keep logs. Also the d

The point would be the stronger anonymity offered by Tor, whereas with VPNs, you're basically at the mercy of the service providers not to keep logs. Also the developers needn't censor anything but merely build in a mechanism that individual node operators can use or not as they see fit. Like adblock lists, the lists themselves would presumably be made and circulated by interested individuals, and nothing to do with Tor devs. Anyway, thinking further, I realised even a whitelist can be bypassed in various ways to do illegal stuff, so you'd still need to be quite prepared and legally informed before running an Exit node. :-(