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Dream Market, the Top Dark Web Marketplace, Will Shut Down Next Month (zdnet.com)
Dream Market, today's top dark web marketplace, today announced plans to shut down on April 30. From a report: The announcement came on the same day Europol, FBI, and DEA officials announced tens of arrests and a massive crackdown on dark web drug trafficking. The timing of the four announcements immediately sent most of Dream Market's users and dark web threat intel analysts into a frenzy of theories that law enforcement might have already seized the site and are now running a honeypot operation. Their fears are based on a similar event from June 2017 when Dutch police took over Hansa Market and ran the site for a month while collecting evidence on the portal's users. Law enforcement later used passwords collected from Hansa Market users to gain access to accounts on other dark web marketplaces.
Because conservatives are cowards, that's why. I know that sounds like a typical druggie thing to say (oh the government doesnt' want people to think!), but in general, conservatives have shown time and again that they are extremely scared of just about anything that is just a teensy little bit different then their existing life style.
So drug usage is one of those things, up there with jews, muslims, lgbt, and socialism. It just makes conservatives very scared and because they are cowards, they do what they can to prevent people from enjoying life as they see fit.