You cut out relevent portions of my post.  I didn't say the discussions of Silk Road here involved buying and selling drugs, I said the discussions on Silk Road involve buying and selling drugs.  it tends to over shadow any sort of practical or philosophical discussion of the site.

The equivalent here were the constant requests for an invite, but that is not so bad when the discussion is on the regular internet.  on TOR you get more 502 errors than connections and having that page that you just reloaded 15 times turn out to be people talking about how good that weed was, when that is not the info you were looking for, is quite frustrating.