I don't disagree with you. That is why I believe the onus is on the owner of the ecosystem where illegal activities are occurring to take action, to boot out the users attached to the activity and, if it makes sense to do so, to put their materials out where it can be found.
There is no simple answer, I know. Maybe for an Admin to do this without being 100% sure to whom the data belongs is tantamount to framing someone, should the data have been placed by another party. I just can't see _nothing_ being done; if not handed over directly to the authorities, then at least personally do the most your own conscious dictates.
The difficulty of the scenarios is not lost on me...
> That is why I believe the onus is on the owner of the ecosystem where illegal activities are occurring to take action, to boot out the users attached to the activity and, if it makes sense to do so, to put their materials out where it can be found.
That's very wrong. This implies that said owner is the one who decides what is and is not legal, which is moving away from a position of ignorance to one of facilitation for those cases where the law of the land does not exactly overlap with their actions. Besides being a breach of the privacy of those communicating using the node, which is what TOR is all about and which in turn could lead to records being kept and people losing their lives.
Not all TOR use is bad, and it's not up to the exit node operators to decide (but plenty of exit node operators should be assumed to be law enforcement of one form or another).
There is no simple answer, I know. Maybe for an Admin to do this without being 100% sure to whom the data belongs is tantamount to framing someone, should the data have been placed by another party. I just can't see _nothing_ being done; if not handed over directly to the authorities, then at least personally do the most your own conscious dictates.
The difficulty of the scenarios is not lost on me...