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Re: OpenBazaar - decentralized eBay
by
siameze
on 24/03/2015, 16:37:44 UTC
open bazzar will become another dark market site, and will be destroyed by govs, this is a waste of time and money.  This site shouldnt be released, cause its to much of a political statment.  The can make this site illegal, and you will def not have privacy.  

How does a government shutdown an open source project? Have the combined efforts of the most powerful governments been able to shutdown decentralized organizations like :

https://defdist.org
https://wikileaks.org
https://thepiratebay.se

? Most governments hate the organizations above and have spent 100s of millions attempting to shut them down. How is that working for them?

I will personally be setting up shop with the express purpose of selling as many legal items as possible under OpenBazaar when it comes out of the Beta we are testing. I will make sure that many some of these legal products support charities and non profits. Any attack on OpenBazaar will be attacking donation streams going to legitimate charities. OpenBazaar will become understood as a neutral marketplace and repercussions will occur if anyone attacks it.

also one more thing, They willl all work together to take your bitcoins, stop doing things in the dark and let them know this is a bad idea.  Dont play this on a political term, also im sure the owner who is making this site will be arrested for making a site, just for making it.  how will the protect themselves legally?

You don't get it do you? This is a decentralized open source project. Unlike the silk road the developers aren't making profits from it, aren't marketing it as a drug site,  and don't control it. Your naive statements are akin to suggesting Bitcoin can be shutdown if everyone in the bitcoin foundation is arrested.  

Agreed inBitwetrust. Combined efforts have done nothing to stop torrrents, in fact p2p filesharing flourishes. This market concept can have nothing but a positive effect overall. Sure some people will sell things that are illegal in certain jurisdictions. It is a game of whack-a-mole however, as soon as one site is removed new technologies and sites replace it. Supply and demand.