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Ross Ulbricht, founder of darkweb market Silk Road, gave a speech to the US Republican Convention (cdn.imgchest.com)
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[–] 67 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Holy shit, they pardoned him? What the actual fuck.

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    • [–] 123 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    So we go shoot a bunch of Venezuelan fishing boats claiming they're hauling drugs and pardon the founder of a drug marketplace at the same time...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's not the drug marketplace I'm worried about...it's the attempt to hire a contract killer to kill someone that explains why he should be in jail.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's precisely why I'm shocked. I understand the charge was dismissed during the trial, but due to technicalities rather than 'this has not happened'. WT actual F.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    He became a MAGA figurehead a few years back, at least in the weirder corners. I remember an old maga getting weirdly defensive when I mentioned how I like the idea of silk road, but not the whole killing people aspect.

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    • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Bring back Silk Road if this is how it's gonna be. Need to acquire some meds outside the pharmaceutical system. For reasons. (MD won't give the good shit for "existential crisis due to fascism").

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    I've never used any crypto black markets, but this sort of shit fascinates me. My understanding is that silk road was effectively the "Pirate Bay" of crypto black markets. It was the most easily accessible, "good enough", and popular enough that it made headlines.

    It was never the only one, or the true "source" or originator for much of the scene. These places absolutely still exist, but they're slightly less "open". Comparing to piracy again, it's like getting into a private tracker rather than using one of the known public ones. You have to dig just a little for it.

    Don't know how much is agency honeypots or astroturfing, but last time I browsed the dark web one of the most popular "subreddits" on what is supposedly TOR's biggest reddit equivalent was all discussion of current marketplaces and their specialties, annoyances, and trustworthiness.

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    • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    When? Looks recent.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    What a lying sack of shit, he was pardoned not exonerated. Guilty, let off by a criminal through a bribe, and now claiming innocence. What an actual garbage human being.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    The anarchist backdrop was an interesting choice.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Giving THAT speech at the epicenter of American facism convention is so unfortunate.

    Like dawg this is the party still on the war on drugs, they are commiting war crimes for it. The party of Palantir and Flock. The ones pushing for concentration camps.

    I can't fully blame anyone being grateful for getting freed from our prison system. I also get not going guns a blazing condemnation at the RNC, but he's been free for a minute now he really can't be that ignorant of what they are doing, right?

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