"Being a giant sponge for salable personal information makes for good business, it turns out." That's the real backstory here; anonymity, tor, silkroad, and th

"Being a giant sponge for salable personal information makes for good business, it turns out." That's the real backstory here; anonymity, tor, silkroad, and the darkweb, were thus widely demonized 'cos they're explicitly bad for mass-harvesting of people's private information for advertisers and other nefarious causes. Bulk info that proved very profitable in the wrong hands. A huge tech-bubble built upon enforced transparency of people's real identities, private interests, and personal activity.