Well, that's what the Tor Project claims. It's good marketing, but they're essentially lying by omission here.
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Most people have absolutely no need to use Tor, but it's clearly very useful for child abusers looking to not get caught. That study reported 80% of hidden service visits were to paedophile websites. This really is not comparable in scale to how electricity, the internet, storage devices, and so on, are used.
Is 80% of internet traffic child pornography imagery? Are 80% of cars driven by paedophiles? If not, your comparison makes no sense really.
Also, Tor isn't public infrastructure. It's a largely anonymous group of people who have collaborated to form an anonymising network. Everyone involved who is aware of the above is knowingly enabling the sexual abuse of children, by allowing the perpetrators to hide behind their network.
The study I linked had the proportion of hidden service visits to paedophile sites at around 80% of the total.
It's such an alarming figure, it really should be in the Tor documentation as a warning of what you'll actually be enabling by running a node.
More importantly, Tor has a significant amount of use by child abusers: https://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-rel...
So there's not really a moral case for this either. You'd just be enabling paedophiles to cover their tracks.