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Is it? There's just too many to list here, even after the shutting down of Silk Road, but these crackdowns cannot be ignored; and look what they found. Majority of criminals using it once again.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/08/349016/a-dark-we...

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2845616/biggest-ever-t...



k. And what about the people using it who aren't criminals, so aren't reported in the press?


You're moving the goalposts. The people operating darknet markets are not Nazis, extremists, and generally not hitmen and terrorists. I have heard that many onion services host child sexual abuse imagery though, but I've never looked for reliable citations or personally verified.


> You're moving the goalposts.

Am I? Or didn't I just say 'There's just too many to list here' and just listed the notable examples.

> The people operating darknet markets are not Nazis, extremists, and generally not hitmen and terrorists.

So who operated those Tor nodes and services of multiple darknet websites in [0] and [1]? Another cybercriminal.

> I've never looked for reliable citations or personally verified.

Talking about 'movings goal posts' and missing the whole 'anonymity' point of Tor. Only time will tell, but so far a great use case for criminals, extremists and terrorists using it.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/how-anonymous-tor-users-co...

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/08/349016/a-dark-we...




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