The “authorities” can shut down website after website, but the
tide of new technology and the human spirit itself cannot
and will not be overcome. This is the hard lesson that statists and
collectivists will be learning the hard way in the years to come, as
decentralization and freedom stage a gigantic, peaceful revolution. A
revolution that is already in full swing and gaining tremendous momentum
with each passing day.
It took only a little over a month for Silk Road 2.0 to
launch on the “dark web,” and there are already close to 500 illegal
drug listings. As part of the new service there is even a new
security feature that allows users to use their PGP encryption key as an
extra authentication measure. The login page itself is even a parody of
the Department of Justice’s seizure of the original site in early
October. This is what you see when you visit:
More from
Forbes:
On Wednesday morning, Silk Road 2.0 came online, promising a new
and slightly improved version of the anonymous black market for drugs
and other contraband that the Department of Justice shut down just over a
month before. Like the old Silk Road, which until its closure served as
the Web’s most popular bazaar for anonymous narcotics sales, the new
site uses the anonymity tool Tor and the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to
protect the identity of its users. As of Wednesday morning, it already
sported close to 500 drug listings, ranging from marijuana to ecstasy to
cocaine. It’s even being administered by a new manager using the handle
the Dread Pirate Roberts, the same pseudonym adopted by the previous
owner and manager of the Silk Road, allegedly the 29-year-old Ross
Ulbricht arrested by the FBI in San Francisco on October 2nd.
The only significant visible change from the last Silk Road, spotted by the dark-web-focused site AllThingsVice that first published the site’s new url,
is a new security feature that allows users to use their PGP encryption
key as an extra authentication measure. It also has a new login page,
parodying the seizure notice posted by the Department of Justice on the
prior Silk Road’s homepage, with the notice “This Hidden Site Has Been
Seized” replaced by the sentence “This Hidden Site Has Risen Again.”
“You can never kill the idea of Silk Road,” read the twitter feed of the new Dread Pirate Roberts twenty minutes before the site’s official launch.
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