Anything regarding news, foreign policy, politics, government corruption, corporate corruption, political philosophy, etc etc I do over Tor.

I have some regular Joe stuff that I do on a regular browser without Tor (some examples of regular stuff that I dont happen to do: basket weaving, sewing, monster trucks, car racing, video game research, etc). I use Tor for all web browsing that is in any way investigative. Further, the more people use it, the better it is at doing its job of obscuring the identity of people using it. Tor needs to be used by regular Joes like you and I so that whistleblowers, activists, and protestors are lost in a sea of noise. Tor is absolutely nothing more than obscuring your doings from being associated with your IP address. You can do legal and illegal things using Tor- and that determines legality of your actions. Tor is a software solution for protecting anonymity. Any reasonable article of any journalistic integrity (especially given the importance of Tor to journalism) should be making it abundantly clear that Tor itself is legal and good and necessary. The truly scary part is the explicit or implicit propaganda that lead you to consider it possibly illegal.

You are not the first person to ask this question- and it is a fair question. It makes it seem that many people have consumed information (maybe the MSM? Maybe just fear-mongering articles?) that lead them to explicitly or implicitly determine Tor to be illegal. I mean ZERO offense OP, but this question scares me.

Is tor browser legal in us