AES was also sponsored by the US government - mainly because they realised they have more to gain by providing strong encryption to the masses than they had to lose.I doubt very much the US government implemented these sites. In the first instance there's an extent to which it wouldn't matter if it's only accessible via Tor and transactions are conducted by Bitcoin. Also, the amount of drugs sold on here are a drop in the ocean compared to the volumes your country goes through in a day.If we took all the drugs ever sold in SR and put them into one big pile, how long do you think they'd last even one of your major US cities - a day? Maybe two? You take my point?It would be far more in their interests to set up their own bogus cartel and/or crime family than an anonymous website. Plus there's too much incentive for criminals to use SR to make it a taxpayer funded initiative.V.Quote from: McGoober on April 13, 2012, 09:23 pmWho's to say this site isn't cointel all along anyway? Seems to me that the governments of the world spend a lot of time controlling new technologies: look at the firms that funded Facebook - they all have government ties. Tor itself was sponsored by Naval Intelligence for fuck's sake. I'll use the site anyway. I'm sure I'm already on a bunch of government lists