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Right! Sites like this and bitcoin could be handing criminals to the authorities on a silver platter. Why are they shutting them down? They should be intentionally creating sites like this as honey pots.

Would that be entrapment? Catch a predatoresque?

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If I understand it correctly, in simple terms, it is only entrapment if you are doing something to make a person commit a crime he wouldn't have done otherwise.

For example, if you are an undercover cop and pressure a random taxi driver to be your getaway driver for a robbery, it would be entrapment. If you just host a honeypot website, post links to it in a few shady places, and people end up using it to do illegal things out of their own volition, it wouldn't count as entrapment.

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