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"Malware is an important part of the Internet"

> and can be used for extra anonymity

Great, so you can conduct illegal transactions and have some unsuspecting grandma take the blame and have her front door kicked in?

Just like Tor, encryption, VPNs, etc, there are tons of legal uses for these proxies as well.
People who run Tor exit nodes generally do so by choice, and know the risks implications involved.

They didn't just connect a coffee pot to their WiFi one day.

Not all of these networks are built via malware.

e.g. https://packetstream.io/share-bandwidth/

"Malware is an important part of the Internet

Technically correct statement though