I think its slightly dishonest to frame this as him simply “creating a website”. He created a marketplace to sell drugs on, I just don’t understand the sympathy. I feel bad for low level drug dealers in jail, this guy not so much.
I would agree it could’ve been handled differently, same with every other aspect of the war on drugs. But celebrating this guy is a step too far for me.
Fair enough. The way I see it though is he made the drug trade incredibly safer because there were forums dedicated to drug testing, the stuff you got. You didn’t have to meet up with people in shady back alleys to purchase the drugs. So reduction of violence occurred, etc.
Because he was put in jail for over a decade for creating a website and he was made an example victim of the failed drug war.
I think its slightly dishonest to frame this as him simply “creating a website”. He created a marketplace to sell drugs on, I just don’t understand the sympathy. I feel bad for low level drug dealers in jail, this guy not so much.
I would agree it could’ve been handled differently, same with every other aspect of the war on drugs. But celebrating this guy is a step too far for me.
Do you know what a website is? I guess we should shut down Facebook because of crimes facilitated thru them?
No, because Facebook is not explicitly designed for the sole purpose of illegal transactions. Very clear difference.
Fair enough. The way I see it though is he made the drug trade incredibly safer because there were forums dedicated to drug testing, the stuff you got. You didn’t have to meet up with people in shady back alleys to purchase the drugs. So reduction of violence occurred, etc.