Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market
by kristofferR on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:58PM
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Let me take a guess - Fentanyl is being sold on the new markets the Dutch police handed over their market share to.
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Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market
by xkcd-sucks on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:12PM
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AKA "any market that sells fentanyls probably isn't being running by dutch police"
Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market
by plussed_reader on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:14PM
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From TFA:
"During their time as black market administrators, the Dutch police only banned one product on Hansa: the highly dangerous opioid Fentanyl. All other drugs on the site continued to flow freely, a circumstance over which Ras and Boekelo seem surprisingly unconflicted. "They would have taken place anyway," says Ras without hesitation, "but on a different market." "
Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market
by kristofferR on Friday March 09, 2018 @06:00PM
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Exactly - the Dutch police let Fentanyl be sold freely by shutting down Hansa, where it wasn't allowed.
Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market
by r1pped on Saturday March 10, 2018 @12:29AM
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What? They stopped the selling of Fentanyl when they had access to the site. Hansa allowed Fentanyl to be sold before they got into the servers.
Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market
by akvadrako on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:23AM
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If they had continued to run the site they would reduce the amount of users of other marketplaces, where Fentanyl is sold.
Basically, if the government ran a legitimate darknet marketplace, they could reduce the sales of the worst substances.