They do that so that they can get all "bad" info in one place where it is easy to spearfish and trap people with doxing tools like bitcoin (as opposed to Monero) and etc. It's a honeypot. Just ask the Dread Pirate Roberts Ross Ulbricht (sp?)

Are you taking the piss or is this actually news to you? Even MSM has talked about this....

TOR was literally built to be a honey pot and even going to the official site gets you put on a list. It's a containment system and far from anonymous as the government owns most of the exit nodes and can track you based on even simple shit like how long it takes for you to communicate with their servers.

From everything I've read you're likely better off blending into normie traffic and not setting off any of the xkeyscore, echelon, etc. programs by not using key words, constantly typing in the same manner over different sites or making direct threats that warrant investigation by a human.

It was developed by the Navy this is not new info.

The fuck