They use it themselves, it's extremely hard to take down due to the nature of it and just blocking it is easy to circumvent and banning it would cause an absolute uproar. They just leave it be and try to go after the individual websites that do the worst stuff. That being said countries like china have blocked the website that you download it on to make it that much harder to access, but like I said it's super easy to circumvent
budbadman420 t1_iuc0lrm wrote
Reply to ELI5: If Tor Browser is a completely secure and hidden search engine that one can use to do illegal things, then why the hell do governments allow it to exist? by [deleted]
They use it themselves, it's extremely hard to take down due to the nature of it and just blocking it is easy to circumvent and banning it would cause an absolute uproar. They just leave it be and try to go after the individual websites that do the worst stuff. That being said countries like china have blocked the website that you download it on to make it that much harder to access, but like I said it's super easy to circumvent