This platform used Tor. And because we want to protect privacy, they can make use of it.
This has nothing to do with privacy! Criminals have their techniques and methods to protect themselves and their “businesses” from discovery, both in the real world and in the online world. Even in a complete absence of privacy they would find a way to hide their stuff from the police - at least for a while.
In the real world, criminals (e.g. drug dealers) also use cars, so you could argue, that druck trafficking is a side effect of people having cars…
x00z@lemmy.world 6 days ago
sleen@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
This particular platform used tor. It doesn’t mean all platforms are using privacy centric anonymous networks. There are incidents with people using kik, Snapchat, Facebook and other clear net services to perform criminal actions such as drugs or cp.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
For anyone interested in the Kik controversy: There’s a great episode of the Darknet Diaries podcast about it: darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Well, it does have to do with privacy and security, it just doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not for them. These people (in the US) always make a point that criminals will buy guns whether it’s legal or not, but then they’ll argue they need to destroy privacy because criminals are using it. It doesn’t make sense, but it doesn’t need to because honesty or consistency aren’t important.