Tor is great, there are lots of in depth technical discussions about onion routing online if you're curious. Tor gives you anonymity not encryption, but you ca

Tor is great, there are lots of in depth technical discussions about onion routing online if you're curious. Tor gives you anonymity not encryption, but you can always combine encryption with Tor. I wish everyone would run a tor node, however very few people do and they can come under very serious bullying by the powers that be. Also online you can read accounts of how the government intimidates people who run Tor nodes. They ask you questions, they show up at your place of work and ask questions, etc. Nothing you're doing is illegal, this is just them using their power of intimidation. If a lot of people ran Tor, the game would be over, but because so few do, intimidation still works, sort of.