Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by loeg on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:29AM
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Teenagers routinely drink alcohol and sometimes die.
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by xmprt on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:10AM
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And businesses that knowingly sell alcohol to minors are charged with a crime.
Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by echoangle on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:35AM
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Sure, but the crime isn’t murder. And they aren’t getting life for it.
Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by Pesthuf on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @05:16AM
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If their business sold alcohol to as many teenagers as the Silk Road has sold drugs, then yes, they would get life.
Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by butlike on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:39PM
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Then why isn't the CEO of anheiser-busch given two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years?
Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by mc32 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:11PM
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AB-InBev does not sell directly to consumers. They have a distributor model of operation.
Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by echoangle on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:33AM
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You mean how Silk Road didn’t actually sell anything but was only a marketplace?
Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by realce on Thursday January 23, 2025 @11:31AM
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Doing business in, or running, a marketplace without established legal regulations opens you up to undefined consequences. Without laws to bind you, there are no laws to protect you.
Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
by paulddraper on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:26PM
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Do they get multiple life sentences?