So the whole point is for open bazarr to facilitate the sale of weapons and child porn and anything else someone might want to sell? I'm sure "let the authorities deal with it" will stand up in court. What makes them different from Ross Ulbrict other than they're not directly profiting off it (though arguable seeing as they got a million in funding recently and will likely get more)? Regardless that wont matter to prosecuters as they wont care.
It's the equivalent of Bittorrent. Quite a few people have been nailed for facilitating torrenting, mainly the operators of listing sites. The inventor of Bittorrent has done nothing wrong and is living a free life.
Yes but sites like Piratebay don't host cp and would remove that sort of stuff. Most people really aren't going to be wanting to use this to sell their goods when their listings are ranked alongside weapons and extreme porn. I think this sort of software should be used by each individual market not a free for all ie have a one on the clearnet for ebay type stuff, then one on the deepnet for drugs and then there will be others that have the more sinister stuff (not that I would endorse them but I think drugs should be kept off regular users wanting to sell their own legal wares etc).
This is where I have reservations about the way the system will operate / be managed.
If OpenBazaar has listings including drugs / weapons etc on there then I won't be using the platform and I know of many other legit retailers who would follow the same principle.
Its going to be further complicated by individual country laws ie. UK You can sell either seeds or hydroponic equipment but you can't sell seeds and hydroponic equipment together because we have laws covering incitement. It is illegal to germinate a cannabis seed in the UK so listing a propagation light or advising a customer on growing techniques along with your seeds is covered by encouragement laws. It is not even necessary for there to be evidence of a crime being committed to secure a conviction for the incitement part.
If the items you list are legal in your home country and in the country you ship to then I see no problem. It could get messy very quickly though.