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ambivalent · 4075 days ago · link · · parent · post: Silk Road shut down, servers seized

Wow. As morally "grey" as it is that something like this could exist, it was pretty incredible that the power of the internet made something as wild as the Silk Road possible.

That being said, I'm sure that before long something will take its place. It took this long to shut down one Tor site. It'll take just as long to take down the next one.

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ButterflyEffect · 4075 days ago · link ·

I'm sure there already is something like Silk Road out there. What it is, I have no idea, but I don't doubt that it will be seeing an increase in traffic following this development.

+discuss