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“… The Silk Road site was set up by Ulbricht in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that's inaccessible to traditional search engines. It did not accept cash or credit cards; users had to pay with cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin. All transactions were encrypted and hence untraceable.
It became a place for people to buy and sell illicit drugs, weapons, poisons, and services such as computer hacking.
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"Silk Road was the Amazon of drug sites," former FBI Special Agent Milan Patel said in an interview for the CBS News series "FBI Declassified."
"We saw murder-for-hire postings, hacking-for-hire postings, which was, 'hey, pay me two bitcoin and I'll hack into your ex-wife or ex-husband's email account,'" Patel said. "…It was totally anonymous. And you could never trace it back to the person who asked for it."
Ulbricht ran the site until his arrest in 2013, when it was seized by the FBI. During his trial, prosecutors said at least six deaths were traced to overdoses from drugs bought on Silk Road. They alleged that Ulbricht collected $18 million through commissions on tens of thousands of drug sales, and presented evidence alleging he sought to have people killed for threatening his business. …”
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Trump has gone full supervillain.
Libertarians supported Trump and he hates the FBI. But he could have at least just commuted this guy’s sentence instead of a full pardon.And what's his reasoning for this?
Libertarians are childish and don't want to live in the real world.Libertarians supported Trump and he hates the FBI. But he could have at least just commuted this guy’s sentence instead of a full pardon.
Libertarians believe this guy was targeted for his beliefs and use of crypto rather than his dark web criminal enterprise.
And what's his reasoning for this?
I am spitting angry about the Ubrecht pardon. That guy is the most horrible POS around.Libertarians supported Trump and he hates the FBI. But he could have at least just commuted this guy’s sentence instead of a full pardon.
Libertarians believe this guy was targeted for his beliefs and use of crypto rather than his dark web criminal enterprise.
100%. And while this doesn’t let them off the hook, I have a very strong feeling 70% of the people who voted for Trump have no idea how bad this is about to get.Day One and through most of today, I was of the mind that while Trump was doing a lot of crap all at once, most of which I oppose, we were more or less seeing what he promised play out in a jumble of performative and more serious executive orders, though the breadth and lack of any discernment on the J6 pardons was a bit surprising.
Tonight, the list of stuff his administration is doing is causing me genuine disquiet about this being a lot worse than suck it up for a while and hope for the best until the consequences of his lies and bizarre policy prescriptions start to be felt.
Pardoning a guy like Ulbricht (and the statement accompanying that), giving Musk free access to US classified data without guardrails, whatever deal is being cut with Oracle between TikTok and the new AI project (Stargate), shutting down info sharing by the FDA and CDC and pulling out of the WHO, the issuance of extremely broad immigration EOs, the mob talk coming out of House leadership … I dunno. Very Macbeth / vengeance vibe.
So this morning I realized that I have two nieces that are in the States each expecting in the next few months. Both are in the US with spouses that are on work visas (one is a heart surgeon, another is an oil trader); one has been in the US for about six years. Per this EO, their babies would fall into that limbo at birth while this gets resolved. They are freaking out right now.Nothing happens.
Trump has a soft spot for corrupt, felonious businessesmen. I can't imagine why.Trump has said on multiple occasions he thinks drug dealers should get the death penalty, but pardons a guy who ran a marketplace for drug dealers.
UnderstandablySo this morning I realized that I have two nieces that are in the States each expecting in the next few months. Both are in the US with spouses that are on work visas (one is a heart surgeon, another is an oil trader); one has been in the US for about six years. Per this EO, their babies would fall into that limbo at birth while this gets resolved. They are freaking out right now.
Really sorry to hear that.So this morning I realized that I have two nieces that are in the States each expecting in the next few months. Both are in the US with spouses that are on work visas (one is a heart surgeon, another is an oil trader); one has been in the US for about six years. Per this EO, their babies would fall into that limbo at birth while this gets resolved. They are freaking out right now.