Dear Ross Ulbricht

Re:Dear Ross Ulbricht by elmerfud on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:24PM (#33043195)

If all Ross did was run some sort of anonymous exchange then I could see the point here. The problem is that's not all he did. He became complicit in actively facilitating the criminal activity and even engaged in it himself. This wasn't some future vision of a no knowledge brokerage system. Let's not equate what Ross was doing with Apple saying they can't break their own encryption.

There's plenty of people in jail for doing nothing but crossing the path of the wrong government bureaucrat. Take for example the ATFs regulations on NFA items and what they classify as under it as a fully automatic weapon. According to them having a piece of metal with the printed directions to make an auto sear is an automatic weapon and you've committed a felony. Yes, this is the exact equivalent of MIT printing the PGP code and it still being classified as a weapon. People are going to jail for only sharing knowledge.

That's not why Ross is in jail.

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Re:Dear Ross Ulbricht by an1sotropy on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:27PM (#33043575)

Yea this seems to be written to perform and provoke, not convince anyone: “Why does government continue to fight these battles that it is sure to lose eventually, and tolerate such carnage along the way? I suppose that is the great mystery of the ages. It has something to do with the unwillingness of some people to tolerate freedom. Powerful people want to exercise that power and they are gravely offended when principled people say no.”

please. I think in their narrow powerful vs principled lens, Ross is in jail because he’s principled (and only that), which is just childish.

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Re:Dear Ross Ulbricht by JohnHaugeland on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:07AM (#33044638)

That's FEE

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