Furthermore, the Tor network is not moderated, nor managed by the Tor project. The Tor project is more-or-less unrelated to the Tor network, and it certainly does not provide any "services" to users. The Tor Project is literally a software project, not a service or platform.
The Tor project simply develops on and provides the Tor core library, from which, other users have taken and made products like TorBrowser.
I guess if the TOR network went around and randomly blew up machines that connected over it that would be different...
Simply suing them because someone used the TOR network to hide their website is absolutely ridiculous.
> The Tor project simply develops on and provides the Tor core library, from which, other users have taken and made products like TorBrowser.
Note that this is not exactly true: Tor Browser is developed by the Tor Project (developed by tp.o's (the organization at torproject.org, which is incorporated as "Tor Project") people.)
At least my take on it is that the core network daemon "tor" is one of the things that tp.o people develop, but it's not the only thing/program.
Some of the programs developed and maintained by people who are tp.o developers: https://www.torproject.org/projects/projects.html.en
These and others comprise the broader ecosystem of Tor software. Many of the programs are (to use your word) (for all intents and purposes) "managed" by Tor Project (not only the core daemon.)