FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by mikeyouse on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:16PM (#6483367)

That hypocrisy grabbed me too. The complaint, when talking about his background makes special note of this;

After going to Penn St for a grad degree in materials science,

    "Ulbrecht states that his 'goals' subsequently 'shifted'.  Ulbricht
    elaborates, obliquely, that he has since focused on "creating an 
    "economic simulation" designed to "give people a first-hand experience
    of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of
    force" by "institutions and governments."

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by kaonashi on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:20PM (#6483406)

Seems like he found out exactly what would happen; the use of force would be wielded more readily by private actors instead.

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by BrianEatWorld on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:34PM (#6484326)

What do you mean by "more readily"?

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by kaonashi on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @05:41PM (#6485584)

The monopoly on the use of force by Government agents keeps private actors (or at least it attempts to) from employing violence on their own terms. Absent that monopoly, private agents will fill the void.

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by ahallock on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @08:53PM (#6486437)

You wouldn't be able to build up the necessary military force without expending massive amounts of money and drawing negative attention to yourself. Investors would not want to be involved with a company creating a PR nightmare and wasting their money on evil. Customers would boycott, the company's stock price would drop, and they wouldn't be able to carry out their plans anyway.

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by wiml on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @10:45PM (#6486797)

This is a happy supposition, but I don't think it's borne out by historical evidence.

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by meemoo on Thursday October 03, 2013 @03:21AM (#6487583)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_USA

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by JoachimSchipper on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:34AM (#6493890)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company#Military_exp...

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by b6 on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:23PM (#6483418)

You seem to be assuming that the allegations are true. The understanding that most people have had is that DPR is a pure freedom fighter. If you take away those allegations, all that's left are fake "crimes" that aren't really crimes at all, just things that government doesn't like.

Edit: but I'm waiting and reading with an open mind.

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by teebs on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:34PM (#6483504)

I think it's reasonable to believe that he started out a pure (ish) freedom fighter and got corrupted by the fact that he had made 10's of millions of dollars off his little experiment.

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by tedunangst on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:57PM (#6484461)

Where did the understanding that DPR is a pure freedom fighter come from? DPR?

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by meepmorp on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @08:13PM (#6486327)

PR and wishful thinking.

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