Troels Oerting from Europol explained to the BBC's Anna Holligan how the joint police operation unfolded Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down. The sites operated on the Tor network - a system that gives access to otherwise hard-to-reach parts of the net. The joint operation between 16 European countries and the US sa
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