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Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pir... by andrewfelix on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @09:39PM (#9001451)
It's interesting that a lot of people sort of sympathise with him seemingly because of the context in which he carried out the crimes.

ie. If he'd been using a landline and peso's instead of BTC and the internet we'd probably attach a completely different emotional response.

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Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pir... by dsuth on Thursday February 05, 2015 @05:56AM (#9002630)
I think a lot of people here sympathise with him because geeks have a libertarian bent. We believe that we know what's best for ourselves, and assume that other people do as well.
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