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Google and Meta also profit from selling ads to the people who use it to trade drugs. All I'm saying is there's a rough equivalence. Perhaps the Silk Road platform should be banned but he was not a drug dealer himself. Creating a communications platform is not the same thing as being a drug dealer.

>>xyzzy9+(OP)
He created/operated a platform with the primary purpose of facilitating the sale of drugs. He profited from those transactions. That makes him a drug dealer.

Comparing Meta and Google to Silk Road is a bad faith argument. You might as well compare Silk Road to the phone network at that point.

>>sbarre+s1
There were many other items and services sold on Silk Road, it wasn’t just drugs.

>>xyzzy9+x6
According to wikipedia [1], 70% of the products sold on silk road were drugs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace). wikipedia uses as reference https://web.archive.org/web/20160407165324/http://gawker.com... and https://web.archive.org/web/20131012012106/http://www.thegua...

plus, at least ebay, amazon, big tech comply or at least sometimes comply with the law banning some products which can't be sold or advertised