You don't route anything by default, you have to explicitly enable it if you wish to help the network.

And relay operators (not exit nodes) don't face any issues. Don't let the unreasonable fear blind you.

I once worked at a very pro-hacker firm (USA) - our CTO, good as he was, once tried to migrate our Ubuntu based servers to BSD, this being a very high tier performance oriented HFT firm, purely on his love of the distro.

A good dozen engineers in a team of 50 ran relays, one bold fool ran an exit node and was falsely fingered for CSAM type crimes during my tenure. The net effect was no one ran relays anymore. The poor exit operator remains an Irish to this day because he has dozens of headlines about his arrest and none about the dropped charges.

At least here in Germany I believe you’re on very shaky legal ground even if you’re just running a relay.