Oh yeah, there was such a rumor going around. I remember that!
But then again, the conspiracy theorists will just make up another conspiracy. For example, the newest conspiracy could be that the honey pot was discovered or they decided it was not viable anymore and it got shut down. And the entire seizure is just the FBI's excuse to make it look like it was never a honey pot.
Honestly, I did not really believe the first conspiracy theory so I am not going to believe any subsequent theories.
That rumour was spread by a small number of conspiracy theorists, I doubted it then along with many others. I still do not believe Chipmixer was a honeypot.
There's been a lot of discussion about Bitcointalk's liability in the case of Chipmixer there's already a ruling on this and so far it is not yet reformed so we can say that it still applies to this case
I would like to cite
Section 230 of a section of Title 47 of the United States Code that was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, it says Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users:
Section 230 was developed in response to a pair of lawsuits against online discussion platforms in the early 1990s that resulted in different interpretations of whether the service providers should be treated as publishers or, alternatively, as distributors of content created by their users
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230Eliminating this section 230 will reshape the internet and this is the same defense Facebook and other social media platforms uses to defend themselves against the attack and their liability for the content their users uploaded.
I am not a legal expert but it really would be something strange if they tried to shut the forum down because the defence used by the websites you listed should suffice.
The worst that could happen (if it hasn't happened yet), is for the authorities to request information about the user who allegedly represented
ChipMixer here on the forum.
I hope you are right. They will probably ask or already have asked for information related to the Chipmixer account and hopefully that will be the end as far as them keeping this forum in mind is concerned.