It's unfortunate, but it's not the end of the world.  These services will still exist and I'm sure most of the people who want to use such services will still be able to find them.  The reasons provided make sense in terms of protecting the forum.  "Deplatforming" is a serious concern in this current climate.

Also, things built at protocol level are more resilient to shutdown, so hopefully we'll start to see improvements in privacy built into Bitcoin soon.  



I'm not convinced.  Where's the central point of failure?