[nbraud]

Well, one single person running 1000 exit nodes would be potentially armful. Same for 1000 exit nodes running on the same network.

That's why it's not very practical to simply write a deployment script for some major cloud provider and let people run with it. (Also, bandwidth tends to be expensive there)

However, if you mean for 1000 HN denizens to start operating their own exit nodes, then by all means go for it :) (Be aware, though, that some people can get quite obnoxious, regardless of the actual legality of running an exit node.)

PS: As already mentioned in this thread, for the sake of full disclosure, I run a non-profit that runs exit nodes.