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I think I have a solution: countries (governments) could publish lists of forbidden addresses; you could be allowed to safely run you Tor exit node as long as those addresses are blocked. Of course, not ideal, but could make a lot of people more willing to run exit nodes.

It wouldn't fix the "someone used my exit node to send a bomb treat" case though.

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This is counter to the entire idea of Tor, which exists to allow people to bypass government censorship.

Does it have to be a binary? Why not make it possible for people who want to support dissidents in Iran to host them without also supporting violent criminals in their home country?

The tech is probably impossible, but I'm not seeing a moral case against it.

That use case still works. You only need one exit node in one jurisdiction where the site you want to visit isn’t blocked. Surely an exit node operator in country A can’t be prosecuted for allowing access to a site on country B’s blacklist.

> Surely an exit node operator in country A can’t be prosecuted for allowing access to a site on country B’s blacklist.

There's many cases where ISPs are ordered to block piracy and streaming sites that are in another country.

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