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>>Ozarki+(OP)
Well, I think that justice has been served. The feds' prosecution of Ulbricht was the epitome of throwing the book at someone to make an example, when the government's case was pretty flawed, in my opinion. 10 years is enough time to pay the debt of running the silk road.

I am glad that Ulbricht has been pardoned and I feel like a small iota of justice has been returned to the world with this action.

>>steve_+f5
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading the comments on this thread. Multiple teenagers (one in Australia) died from the drugs distributed on Silk Road. Ross was ok with selling grenades, body parts, etc on there. But everyone is saying he served his time ???

>>zanek+zp
People regularly die from drinking alcohol. Should liquor store owners be doing life in prison? (And why are Australians special?)

>>loeg+Qu
The comment you replied to referenced "multiple teenagers" - the very people that liquor stores cannot sell alcohol to since they're not recognized as mature enough to be freely allowed to drink.

SR allowed children to buy addictive poison without any regulation whatsoever, and Ross profited off of those transactions.

These are not comparable institutions.

>>realce+8y
Teenagers routinely drink alcohol and sometimes die.

>>loeg+pC
And businesses that knowingly sell alcohol to minors are charged with a crime.

>>xmprt+eM
Sure, but the crime isn’t murder. And they aren’t getting life for it.

>>echoan+GU
If their business sold alcohol to as many teenagers as the Silk Road has sold drugs, then yes, they would get life.

>>Pesthu+061
Then why isn't the CEO of anheiser-busch given two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years?