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I think the problem there is more that you talked to me about finding hitmen, even if I didn't help.

If I merely let you access my directory of all the people in town sorted by job, there probably wouldn't be an issue.

A search engine is not a human. It can't be expected to preemptively filter out suspicious results. Google certainly doesn't.

In the end I just don't think it's right to shut down a site because of its userbase. We don't shut down roads when most of their traffic is criminals. And there's nothing inherently illegal about torrent search engines.




> We don't shut down roads when most of their traffic is criminals

Do you have an example of a road mostly used by criminals which the relevant authorities aren't trying to shut down? One where the criminals aren't actively bribing the authorities, obviously.




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