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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by mrpopo on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @05:02AM (#42791089)
Pretty sure Silk Road enabled loads of pedophiles to go about their activities. This is a false equivalence
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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by mardifoufs on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:29AM (#42793202)
What do you mean? Did it actually allow selling anything related to pedophilia? Like CSAM?
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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by namlem on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:13AM (#42800924)
Nope. Such content was banned.
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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by sweettea on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:51AM (#42794771)
Despite Silk Road explicitly banning CSAM, and the feds not charging Ulbricht with it when you know they would love the positive PR if they could?
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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by silver_silver on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:57PM (#42795592)
> The site's terms of service prohibited the sale of certain items. When the Silk Road marketplace first began, the creator and administrators instituted terms of service that prohibited the sale of anything whose purpose was to "harm or defraud." This included child pornography, stolen credit cards, assassinations, and weapons of any type

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)#Produc...

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