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It's used by the government because the keys to the backdoors rest with the NSA. I don't have the source for what I read right now, but TOR devs are known to work with the government. I believe a similar interaction exists between I2P devs and the government but perhaps not to the extent that TOR does. Note that the government has a vested interest in having backdoors to TOR since it is used more by cybercriminals (for what reasons I do not understand since they know just as well that TOR cannot be trusted).
Read recent research publications about the vulnerabilities of TOR and I2P and you'll quickly realise how trivial it would be for the government. As with semi-decentralised designs, there are many ways to break such architectures and the government holds such capabilities.
bro it was developed by them, for secure communication lmao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)
It was handed over to the foundation as an independent organisation. However, that doesn't mean that they don't have their stinky hands in the project, it's just that it's not public.