Some have proposed that the federal government values Tor's commitment to cost-free speech, and makes use of the darknet to obtain intelligence. BusinessWeek magazine has explained it as "probably the most helpful suggests of defeating the on line surveillance attempts of intelligence agencies about the earth".
Silk Road's use of all of Tor, Bitcoin escrow and feed-back systems would established the typical for new darknet markets for the coming many years. This Western depiction of personal justice contrasts sharply with justice programs organized all over rationalistic, summary legislation that exist in metropolitan areas, in which social order is preserved predominantly by way of comparatively impersonal institutions such as courtrooms.