There was a case centered around the fact that the defendant maintained a TOR router and occasional exit point in the city I live in a few years ago.<p>I didn&#x27;t follow it obsessively but general gist I walked away with was that the authorities were using TOR as an excuse to go after people who had gotten their attention for other reasons, perhaps so simple as annoying people who are simply friends with people in power. And then subject them to a shockingly large range of intrusive police activity (including extended surveillance, pre-dawn raids using specially trained heavily armed police forces), and drawn out prosecution for a litany of minor or petty violations they happened to discover in the process.<p>At the end of the trial it came out that they never did really try to prosecute any of the TOR related &quot;offenses&quot; and judges were apparently happy to leave TOR usage in some sort of legal grey area.<p>So it&#x27;s not just the Americans and the FBI that get up disingenuous shenanigans when it comes to TOR.