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As a historical document, you should be aware that the SR1 complaint is extremely incomplete and misleading; one could write a book* about what is left out or w
by gwern 6y ago
As a historical document, you should be aware that the SR1 complaint is extremely incomplete and misleading; one could write a book* about what is left out or wrong in it, starting with the Carl Mark Force and Bridges corruption scandal, lighting on the shall we say questionable veracity of Agent Tarbell's account of finding the Iceland server's IP (and who shortly afterwards left for the greener climes of the private cybersecurity sector), before moving on to the revelations at trial like about the hitmen scams - not to neglect pondering the claims recently by Variety Jones about, among other things, participants in the corruption scandal still being on the loose. Quite a rabbit hole.
* One could also write a book naively taking all police claims at face value without applying any critical thinking, and it seems one Wired journalist did so...
- aidenn0 6y agoDo you have a better single source for review, or are we stuck having to piece together information from the varied sources?
- emXdem 6y agohttps://antilop.cc/sr/ https://antilop.cc/sr/ my favorite
- nmlnn 6y agohttps://freeross.org/real-untold-story/ https://freeross.org/real-untold-story/
- Dahoon 6y agoThe land of the free....
- pc86 6y agoWhy would a site dedicated to the defense of a convicted criminal be any less biased than the government in this case?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 6y agoOne is incentivized to tell the truth while the other has been caught red handed doing parallel reconstructionism.
- pc86 6y agoTheir incentive is to get someone out of jail. That's not always the same thing.
- blonde_ocean 6y agoI liked this video: https://youtu.be/GpMP6Nh3FvU https://youtu.be/GpMP6Nh3FvU
- digianarchist 6y agoThere’s two books that cover the case: https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-Behind/dp/1591848148/ref=nodl_ https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23502744-silk-road https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23502744-silk-road Still waiting for the movie to be made with Ross’ doppelgänger Robert Patterson playing him.
- blonde_ocean 6y agohaha, the movie comment made me laugh. I could totally see that
- zaroth 6y agoAs a general rule, I don't think there's any reason to believe the average FBI complaint to be any more or less accurate than this one.
- seleniumBubbles 6y agoThis whole case just makes me incredibly sad. Two federal agents tampered with important evidence, likely fabricated the entire “murder for hire” fiction, abused their law enforcement positions to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoins, and carefully framed other people. The literally corrupt federal agents got a slap on the wrist. They’ll both be out of prison soon. But the young man who built a website for weed is to remain in prison for life. What a sad, miscarriage of justice.
- sildur 6y agoThis is not an isolated incident, it happens every day. The justice system is more worried about putting someone behind bars, no matter if it is guilty or not. That makes death sentences even worse.
- cies 6y ago> miscarriage of justice. Victimless crime in general is miscarriage of justice, imho.
- rubidium 6y ago"website for weed" is underplaying the crime. All the major illegal drugs were sold... including those which have no place existing in the world. Yes, major corruption on the federal side. But not much sympathy for the crime here, esp. as it was so intentional and lucrative.
- yipbub 6y ago> "website for weed" is underplaying the crime. All the major illegal drugs were sold... including those which have no place existing in the world. Decriminalization of all drugs does seem to be something being taken very seriously. Reduces abuse, harm, and violent crime.
- jkinudsjknds 6y agoDecriminalization of all drugs could be an effective policy with positive effects across the board while it still being true that a selective set of laws to allow most drugs, but not all drugs, could have better results. Especially at the seller's end, rather than the consumer.