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You are arrogant, lazy and uneducated and, on top of that, out of contact with reality. The CA system is broken. It does not give you any assurances anymore because it is utterly compromised.

Incidentally, I learned how the CA system works around 30 years ago and at that time, there was some expectation that it could actually work. These have proven to be overly optimistic as greed, stupidity and arrogance has made it very simple to get compromised certificates (even EV ones). You can even buy them as a service: https://www.deepdotweb.com/201...

Huh? It is a violation to RUN a proxy. Not USE a proxy.

Here is the text of what's forbidden, from TFA. Note the bold face on the word use (bold is from the original):

use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network (“PremisesLAN”), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited to, email, web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;

Agreed, the interpretation of this text could be ambiguous. The straightforward reading, however, is that it is forbidden to use proxy services. You're also not allowed to run them, but that's specified separately.

Are the SR2 operators in it for the con, or are they in it for the future?

I think they're in it for the profit, because I highly doubt they're in it for altruistic purposes. These aren't monks sitting in a monstary, eating only food they grow themselves, running the site off donated servers and bandwidth powered by solar cells and batteries. These are people living in the industrialized world, who buy groceries and pay for electricity and hardware.

Drugs are a high-margin business. If they wanted to prove the economic viability of a marketplace that exists independently of any government, then why weren't they focusing on selling the kinds of things purchased more openly and by a larger segment of the population, like a BTC-powered Etsy or CobornsDelivers, and put it up on the open Internet where anyone could find it, instead of hiding it on the darknet?

I mean, if it was all about proving the viability of such a market, then do your proof-of-concept first, and then start pushing the point once you have some clout. If you're just in it to be a prophet of Bitcoin, then what does it matter if someone else beats you to the punch and sets up their own marketplace of illicit goods?

Besides, the story seems flakey. There have been allegations that this was an inside job from the beginning, where they first claim to have been robbed as a result of transaction malleability, and yet there's a lot of controversy over whether or not transaction malleability can even be exploited at this scale. There's certainly a lot of theory that points to these guys not being entirely on the level, but they sure aren't altruists.