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Setting up a dark web market is something most people would want to get anywhere close to... Imagine being responsible for facilitating murder-for-hire, sex tr

• Chris2048 5y ago
  I'm sure there are plenty of people who wouldn't care. Anyone who buys diamonds has blood on their hands too.
  • michaelmrose 5y ago
    I think there is a material difference between buying a diamond and directly facilitating the activities of the drug cartels. In theory everyone buys things that are made by people in shitty conditions because there isn't much direct visibility on the front end as to what kind of nastiness happened elsewhere in the supply chain. If you want that to change you have to make it illegal to do business with such folks not hope consumers fix it for you via the magic of the market.
    • Chris2048 5y ago
      It's unclear to me those shitty conditions (e.g. those of iphone manufacture) are net harmful to the poverty-stricken areas they affect - but I'm not sure that's not true of diamonds. I think it's also more jarring that diamonds are otherwise useless symbols of status. At least iphones trickle down in some way (e.g. allowing the proliferation of older gen smartphones even in poor countries).
• saba2008 5y ago
  Imagine having employer, who has no qualms about killing people and for whom you are a loose end. You need to be either professional criminal (skill set completely orthogonal to IT, so chance of somebody possessing both at professional level is miniscule), or a moron.