In other words, isn't a knowingly facilitator directly involved in the illegal activity he's facilitating? This discussion is clouded because it's was an onlin

In other words, isn't a knowingly facilitator directly involved in the illegal activity he's facilitating? This discussion is clouded because it's was an online platform and it was pretending to be a beacon of user privacy and civil liberties (which it was not). Imagine a situation where you're renting rooms in your house for criminals to conduct crimes (and that's your main selling point, nobody is pretending you're renting those rooms because you want simply to help people), would we be discussing whether you deserve a harsh sentence or not? I don't think so. The difference between the Silk Road website and Google/Postal Office is that they take reasonable measures against illegal activity on their platform when they are informed of that.