It's actually quite spot on. The only reason the Silk Road is used is because there's a need for it. A need that's created by our current litigious and unproductive drug laws.
* Chat completely anonymously or login with your Twitter, Facebook or Barc account
* Create private group chats which can be permanently deleted
* Connect with other users using your microphone/camera (using WebRTC)
* Chat with people in different languages using real-time language translation
* Make rich interactive polls inside the chat
Features being worked on:
* Screen sharing
* File Transferring
* Customizable Interface
Barc can also be embedded inside your website as a comment/community tool. We’ve had a lot of adoption with radio station/band websites. Example: freedomizerradio.com
We’ve open sourced some of the tools we’ve made too, check out our stuff at http://barc.github.com