The dark web strikes back

http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/10/04/deep-web-users-are-ready-to-launch-silk-road-2-0/

by drdoctrine • 13 years ago

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zipfle• 13 years ago

Misleading title. Suggest: People On Internet Say They Will Do Something That Will Totally Stick It To The Man, Just You Wait.

fragsworth• 13 years ago

Not really misleading. It will be rebuilt. There's too big of a market for it.

warcher• 13 years ago

Seriously, that guy moved a billion dollars worth of drugs. And was criminally stupid, might I add. If we don't do it, there are a thousand other countries who will. Putting up a hidden tor website isn't exactly putting a man on the moon.

It would be silly to expect this latest round in the war on drugs to go down any differently than it's been going for decades. Whatever sucker was on top of the pyramid gets put in jail, and drugs get cheaper, purer, and easier to get. Just like clockwork.

ChuckMcM• 13 years ago

Misleading in the sense of 'striking back' but probably not in terms of 'coming back from the dead.'

stevewillows3• 13 years ago

I don't think it's fair to compare or relate DPR to Snowden. Building a place for people to buy coke isn't exactly freedom fighting. I realize that this skips past all of the other excuses he had for running the place.

smosher3• 13 years ago

I disagree. Many people in this world lack the freedom to purchase cocaine. Whether they should have the freedom is up for debate. Whether it's a question of freedom is not.

stevewillows3• 13 years ago

Should we also have the freedom to hire a contract killer then? If not, where do we draw the line?

I agree that we should have the freedom to access anything we need to, but I guess it comes down to where we draw the line and what the appropriate response by law enforcement is. Much like we are seeing with growing marijuana for therapeutic intent (selling and personal) vs running a grow up for profit.

My main argument was that they are comparing DPR, who turns a profit, to Snowden who essentially lost everything to expose a corrupted system.

In a sense the active simulation we see with bitcoin is an example of a profitable but accurate exercise of a system.

Outside of specific details (legal etc), it is an interesting concept to witness the drug trade without the use of 'the street'. Hopefully this will present some ideas that will shape this currently illegal economy toward something that can be regulated and made 'safe'.

lukejduncan• 13 years ago

Completely agree. I don't know much of the history, but if the allegations of hiring a hitman a true, there is a big difference between whistle blowing and running a digerati mafia

The dark web strikes back

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