I hate to belabor this point, especially since sailor is trying valiantly to keep us on topic, but again I have to take issue. Even if you assume that the only use the average home user will ever have for a proxy is concealing his identity, this is not an illegitimate use. Privacy is not a crime. If I don’t want a website to log my IP, there are a lot of perfectly valid reasons for that, including my simple desire for privacy. The fact that I want to keep something private does not mean I have “something to hide” in some sinister way.
Of course, while I have every right to conceal my online identity, websites also have every right to require some traceability. I have no problem with policies like SDMB’s which state that they do not allow users to view via anonymous proxy. My problem is with the sweeping generality that the use of proxies to provide privacy is somehow a priori evidence of criminal intent.
Again, I know this is OT, but we must be diligent in fighting against the conventional wisdom that desire for privacy is evidence of wrongdoing.