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Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know that he had granted a full and unconditional pardon to her son.BBC News
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Democrats: My way or the highway! Fall in line and support what we tell you to. This is how you're supposed to feel about these issues.
Trump: Lets make a deal. You vote for me and I'll do XYZ for you.
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Human trafficking was not allowed. Not even CCs were allowed. Silk road didn't let you sell anything that harmed others.
Also, how did Ulbricht steal from the rich?!?
And it was still quite literally used by 10,000's of vendors to sell illegal drugs?
I dont think it would have even been a thing if it was as easy as you suggest to catch people selling drugs on it. Sure, with enough resources, a dedicated law enforcement team can likely bust a drug dealer using BTC; but like with most things involving drugs and Neo-liberalism, the prisons are all full, the police are underfunded and can only occasionally make token arrests and the people who arent low hanging fruit get in and out without any interaction with the police.
the prisons are all full, the police are underfunded
No way you actually think this is reality. No way enforcement could just be a deeply inefficient way of dealing with crime and the low hanging fruit along with making a show of token arrests is really all they care about.
No lol the country with the largest prison population, that generates private profit by holding its people captive and hands out billions of dollars to police, the DEA and the FBI to capture them, well it just needs to hand out even more billions of dollars of "resources" to these agencies so they can lock up the real criminals and then crime will be properly dealt with!
No lol the country with the largest prison population, that generates private profit by holding its people captive and hands out billions of dollars to police, the DEA and the FBI to capture them, well it just needs to hand out even more billions of dollars of “resources” to these agencies so they can lock up the real criminals and then crime will be properly dealt with!
The people in prison for dealing drugs arent the same people dealing drugs with bitcoin, you conflate gang members, prescription drug resellers and corner standers with the profile of a typical darknet drug dealer, which arent the same demographics for the most part.
No way you actually think this is reality. No way enforcement could just be a deeply inefficient way of dealing with crime and the low hanging fruit along with making a show of token arrests is really all they care about.
Its the reality in the UK at least, only drug dealers who get caught here are the ones trying to ship in millions of worth of cocaine, the prisons are actually all full here and most drug crimes dont even get charged because the time limit they have to charge people expires by the time the courts become available.
As for the US, it remains a convient excuse for the police to suppress votes from demographics the upper class needs supressed; you wont be finding the people who supply elon musk with ketamine going to prison anytime soon, they will be smart enough to use monero!
He pioneered an online marketplace for drugs and also tried to have people assassinated (allegedly)
Was it? It wasn't mentioned in the article and I don't think I've ever heard that before.
"Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking."
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That's because the charges were dismissed.
I have seen this repeated multiple times on Lemmy. When I look this up, I find:
- Dismissal with prejudice: freeross.org/wp-content/upload…
- The DEA agent responsible for this entrapment sentenced to prison for corruption: justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dea-…
- The target of the alleged crime (Curtis Green) advocating for Ross and claiming that his own messages were altered:
- The fact that the payments to the hitmen were made via bank wire transfer: imgur.com/why-would-dpr-send-e…
So, the charges are dismissed with prejudice, the DEA agent imprisoned for corruption, the alleged victim testifies in his favor. What makes the other narrative compelling? I see people citing the court document in which the claims were made..... But what is the value of that document if the result was a dismissal with prejudice? Shouldn't that support the innocence narrative?
I am genuinely curious. I'm not necessarily advocating his innocence, I want to understand what other people know that makes them so convinced that he is guilty of this.
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Google didn't turn up anything conclusive.
Are you sure you're not misremembering this or making it up? It should be pretty easy for you to provide a source if it's true.
Feds Take Down Online Fraud Bazaar ‘Silk Road’, Arrest Alleged Mastermind
Prosecutors in New York today said today that federal agencies have taken over the Silk Road, a sprawling underground Web site that has earned infamy as the "eBay of drugs." On Tuesday, federal agents in San Francisco arrested the Silk…krebsonsecurity.com
Silk Road Drug Vendor Who Claimed To Commit Murders-For-Hire For Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Charged With Narcotics And Money Laundering Conspiracies
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas M. Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced the un…www.justice.gov
I have seen this repeated multiple times on Lemmy. When I look this up, I find:
- Dismissal with prejudice: freeross.org/wp-content/upload…
- The DEA agent responsible for this entrapment sentenced to prison for corruption: justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dea-…
- The target of the alleged crime (Curtis Green) advocating for Ross and claiming that his own messages were altered:
- The fact that the payments to the hitmen were made via bank wire transfer: imgur.com/why-would-dpr-send-e…
So, the charges are dismissed with prejudice, the DEA agent imprisoned for corruption, the alleged victim testifies in his favor. What makes the other narrative compelling? I see people citing the court document in which the claims were made..... But what is the value of that document if the result was a dismissal with prejudice? Shouldn't that support the innocence narrative?
I am genuinely curious. I'm not necessarily advocating his innocence, I want to understand what other people know that makes them so convinced that he is guilty of this.
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when the government puts a gun in the hands of someone under pressure and whispers in their ear "do it. Kill them. Pull the trigger" I'd say they're innocent 100% of the time
If you manipulate someone into doing a violent crime, the person who did the manipulation is the criminal
He paid money to have people killed in order to protect his profits
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The fact that he wasn't convicted of it doesn't mean it didn't happen
Silk Road Drug Vendor Who Claimed To Commit Murders-For-Hire For Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Charged With Narcotics And Money Laundering Conspiracies
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas M. Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced the un…www.justice.gov
Allegedly*
Fact: nobody was actually killed.
Fact: He wasn't convicted, so this is just the government claiming someone they dont like did something without proving it (again the proof lacking is the payments, because nobody died)
So, here's a thought to mull over.
Most crimes committed with firearms are pursuant to drug trafficking. Gangs fight other gangs to control drug territory, because it's extremely lucrative. When I lived in Chicago, the gangs were hyper-local; the police had dismantled the leadership of the large gangs, leading to the fracturing of the gang structure, and creating more, and smaller gangs, all fighting over turf, and where and to whom they could sell drugs.
When you move that off the streets and anonymize all of it, you remove the motivation to commit violent acts. A gang on street A is no longer competing with a gang on street B for customers; now they might be competing with someone across the country, or in another country entirely. Not only that, but you de-motivate adulteration of drugs; if you sell low-purity trash, or cut your percs with fent, your customers now have a plethora of other options to try.
The Silk Road made drugs and the drug trade safer for everyone. If this had become the norm, instead of p2p sales, we could have seen significant drops in violent crimes associated with the drug trade.
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Ah sorry, I thought drag meant LW as it is the subject of the topic.
Well, there are probably other communities to discuss Luigis.
For the record: Drag directed an individual to commit a specific act of violence that would likely result in suicide, which led to Drag being banned. This decision was based on basic community standards and not motivated by any “anti-Luigi” or “anti-leftist” sentiment.
Edit: For the record, this user was banned from this community for vote manipulation of this comment.
Dying of cancer in prison is not suicide and being shot by police is not suicide. And as you can see in the image, that mod says drag didn't advocate suicide. Drag tried to talk a suicidal person into having a reason to live and delay their plans, and drag thinks it worked. Don't call empathising with a suicidal person and getting on their level suicide glorification. If you do that, you're going to deny a lot of suicidal people empathy and get them killed.
Drag has been directly told by multiple 196 mods that the ban wasn't about suicide, it was about advocating Nazi killing. Drag can show screenshots if you don't believe drag.
Drag gets that your theory sounded nice, but it's not true and here's the proof. The 196 mods were not concerned with encouraging suicide.
The person that has been previously banned for suggesting that people kill themselves is here to tell you they’re innocent of being accused of doing it yet again…
And they brought proof that they did it.
This is god-like trolling folks. An absolute masterclass.
In another month or so when LW updates (the synching issue will actually be delayed even further beyond that they said), will this really be as much of an issue anymore?
If they want to provide hosting services, then let them? We can always move if we don't like them, and let's face it that some of those giant communities are fairly toxic and would remain so wherever they go.
Then again perhaps I am speaking of things that I do not know here: out of the top 10 communities listed there, I am not subscribed to any of them.
“real” email address requirements
First time I hear about it. So you can't just register with any email provider?
It's too big regarding the whole platform. lemmy.world/comment/14610021
Also fedidb.org/software/lemmy/ 16k users out of 43k are on LW
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if you need any help setting up that new instance, let me help you :D
i'm located in austria, if that matters.
Didn't you get banned specifically for being the least respectful about... owning horses?
It is an interesting discussion, but not one to be had when someone shares a photo of a horse in /pics. Especially when you bring up the CCP like 3 comments in.
I'm not sure a filter would actually work that well. For example, it might block out Trump and Musk, but then a new ~~keyboard~~ keyword appears, and having to manually re-adjust the filtering all the time quickly becomes tedious.
Instead, it should probably be based on instances (for example, block a whole instance), communities (whitelist/blocklist communities), or some kind of more complicated recommendation algorithm, but i don't know how that would work, or how to make it "unbiased" and fair.
yes, exactly. wanna start a matrix chat room? My matrix handle is [redacted, DM me] and i'm really thinking about starting a chat room about this issue ... feel free to ping me either way if you feel like it :D
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If you dont want to see those type of posts, then you can follow communities which dont include them. And block any instances/communities you dont like so they disappear from /all. You can also create your own community with your own rules, or your own instance. Neither of these things is difficult, they just need time and determination.
$112M in provincial funding for Jasper housing rebuild 'can't be spent' amid impasse: minister
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Trump administration drops Biden-era guidance for immigration arrests in sensitive areas
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Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace
Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison in 2015, given ‘full and unconditional’ pardon by presidentGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Pardons that Trump would have liked to have made:
- Charlie Manson
- Bernie Madoff
- Adolph Hitler
- Ted Bundy
- Pablo Escobar
- John Wayne Gacy
- Jeff Dahmer
- The Zodiac Killer
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The story with Fetterman is that he has always been opportunistic. He showed his true self holding up a Black jogger at gunpoint because he hears fireworks and wanted to be a hero. Never apologized. But talked a good game on weed and the weed bro contingent of the Dems fell in love.
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MANILA, Philippines — For the second time, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) once again moved the printing of ballots for the midterm polls in May after the Supreme Court (SC) issued two new temporary restraining orders (TROs).
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"“‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,”... “‘Male’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”
...All fetuses have phenotypically female genitalia until they reach six to seven weeks of gestation...
By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood."
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Trump Sneaks Dangerous Rights for Fetuses Into Executive Order
Donald Trump slipped the anti-abortion language into an otherwise unrelated order.The New Republic
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