Silk Road is gone, but it was replaced by other similar websites rather quickly. What is the point in spending time and money on futile efforts that don't even accomplish what they were intended for?
There are possibly lots of points. This is advertising, right? Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road is a kind of advertising for Bitcoin and other things like TOR and the Dark Web. So, why would government want to advertise? Government might.
Nobody knows for sure the fickleness of the people. This kind of advertising draws the people's feelings into the open. The people might start to use Bitcoin more than ever. On the other hand, this might scare the people into compliance. Same said the Dark Net and TOR.
This is a warning for the banking system. The banking system is near collapse. If not immediate collapse, then a slippery slope downward. The advertising is warning for the banks to get their act together, and it is a test to see how ready people are to get away from the banking system.
History has shown that if the people feel threatened, they take an "out" when they see one. Do the people feel threatened? If they turn to Bitcoin after all this advertising, then the government and the banks know that they had better change their ways, or the people will leave them behind.
