Nothing to see here citizen, please keep walking.
Ross Ulbricht, founder of darkweb market Silk Road, gave a speech to the US Republican Convention
a month ago by Orwi to c/mildlyinteresting
massive_bereavement 26 points a month ago
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
impairedimperator 14 points a month ago
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.
impairedimperator 13 points a 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.
shartgargle 2 points a month ago
Yeah! You want a job done, do it yourself! /s
RaoulDuke25 8 points a month ago
He passed the brown bag color test
frustrated_phagocytosis 28 points a month ago
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").
wizardbeard 11 points a 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.
Orwi 22 points a month ago
That was 3 days ago
fruitycoder 6 points a 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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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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