I don't speak for OpenBazaar but I would hate to see an entire network shut down over a few psychopaths when the rest of the people using it are just using it for relatively innocent purposes in comparison, I'm sure the community will inform somebody if that kind of shit happens but a true free market should never be jeopardised because of the actions of a few.
If you've looked around I'm sure you realise that the media have a habit of painting us all as terrorists, drug dealers and paedophiles when we're quite obviously not.
People may decide not to use it but it can't be shut down. It's a decentralized peer to peer network like Bitorrent and Bitcoin.
It cannot be entirely shut down, but it can be effectively shut down in a number of ways. Adversaries could potentially paint anyone that uses OB as a criminal, making many people not want to use it; they could pull off a number of scams and scam attempts, making trading on OB inefficient and potentially expensive (from both wasting your time with scams and potentially actually getting scammed); or law enforcement can infiltrate the network and conduct a lot of controlled buys and controlled sells so anyone who attempts to conduct illegal activity on OB will likely get caught.
