Tor is building a new Dark Net with help from the U.S. military

For those of you still using Tor I thought this was yet another reason to not use it (there have been many reasons for quite a while in my opinion).
And it quotes, "To stay ahead in the security race, Tor is building the next-generation Dark Net in part with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. military agency charged with inventing the cutting edge of new technology.
The funding, which began in 2014, comes as part of DARPA’s Memex project, a “groundbreaking” search engine designed to best commercial titans like Google at searching the Deep Web and other oft-ignored terrain for the U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and military. To build Memex, DARPA is partnered with universities like Carnegie Mellon, NASA, private research firms, and several Tor Project developers."
[link to www.dailydot.com]

Remember, this isn't the only time DARPA contributed to TOR - it happened 2001 to 2006.

The Tor project is may also turn to crowd funding too
[link to www.dailydot.com]

I don't use Tor much because of this kind of thing. I am curious what people have in their anonymous online toolbox... Tails, VPN's, etc?