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According to Reuters he was found guilty of "charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laundering." In addition to running an illegal market bazaar for 4 years.

>>davegu+(OP)
- sackler family engineered opioid crisis and went unscathed - hacking is a bogus charge applied to everything touching PCs - money laundering is another victimless crime that very few actual money launderers gets charged with, for some reason

>>slt202+j
Yeah, the Sacklers should be in jail too.

And you didn't bother to address that he ran a market for illegal goods and services, for some reason.

>>slt202+j
So that means Sackler should be charged, not that Ross should get off lol.

>>slt202+j
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>>davegu+(OP)
What a travesty. Maybe life was too long a sentence but this was far too short.

>>foogaz+C1
Case law obsessively cites other case law. So yeah, that's how it works. His trial was a farce and was meant to send a message to others to not, um, do drugs online or something.

>>andirk+j5
Drug Cartels were just categorized as terrorist organizations so I'm not sure the current admin is ok with drugs

"But he was a libertarian!" Shrugs

>>beezle+e4
10 years is plenty. No point in keeping non-violent offenders behind bars for absurd amounts of time.

>>davegu+41
>Sacklers should be in jail too.

but they didn't, so we can forget about concept of justice.

>>beezle+e4
I'm not pro life sentence but the guy who was selling literally tons of narcotics online from which people overdosed and died and the guy who was ordering murders of his narco enemies gets to spend only 10 years in jail is indeed ridiculous. Imo he should've spent 10 years more because this way it seems like he "just" robbed a bank or something and got 10 years and now it's like nothing happened.

I'm stressing it out again, multiple people died from overdose because of him and multiple people were about to get executed because he hired hitman to kill them.

>>mrkram+kT
They wouldn't get their supply elsewhere? The junkies liked it because they didn't have to worry about getting robbed. You want to get rid of junkies? Enforce capital punishment of possession like Singapore.

>>mrkram+kT
Silk Road in how it worked removed almost all the criminal life exposure from the process. People undervalue that, as if it wasn't a thing.

>>mrkram+kT
Did he actually sell the drugs, or did he just create a communications platform? Should all communications platforms be liable for what people do on them?

>>xyzzy9+kh1
He actually sold a ton of drugs too.. you don't need to raise these questions as unknowable hypotheticals, it's literally a google search away to find out. The first sales on the site were trashbags full of mushrooms that he grew in a cabin in Texas.

>>mikeyo+TO1
Mushrooms aren't responsible for any deaths as far as I'm aware.

>>maxlin+rg1
That argument doesn't have any validity taking in consideration that it was still illegal to sell drugs online. In another words; legally it doesn't mean anything that it was safer to sell drugs online than it is on the streets, both are illegal. I have no sympathy for such "noble" entrepreneurs.

>>xyzzy9+kh1
If you drive the get away car in a bank robbery and someone inside is murdered, guess what? You get to be charged as well.

>>Stagna+Yd
Yea right. Drugs and violence are never mixed together /s. Just because he didn't commit violence himself (let's exclude his murder for hire. ahem.) does not mean no violence was ever caused because of his market place.