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According to Reuters he was found guilty of "charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laund

According to Reuters he was found guilty of "charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laundering." In addition to running an illegal market bazaar for 4 years.

slt2021 2y ago
- sackler family engineered opioid crisis and went unscathed - hacking is a bogus charge applied to everything touching PCs - money laundering is another victimless crime that very few actual money launderers gets charged with, for some reason
- daveguy 2y ago
  Yeah, the Sacklers should be in jail too. And you didn't bother to address that he ran a market for illegal goods and services, for some reason.
  - slt2021 2y ago
    >Sacklers should be in jail too. but they didn't, so we can forget about concept of justice.
- arcticbull 2y ago
  So that means Sackler should be charged, not that Ross should get off lol.
- foogazi 2y ago
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  - andirk 2y ago
    Case law obsessively cites other case law. So yeah, that's how it works. His trial was a farce and was meant to send a message to others to not, um, do drugs online or something.
    - foogazi 2y ago
      Drug Cartels were just categorized as terrorist organizations so I'm not sure the current admin is ok with drugs "But he was a libertarian!" Shrugs
beezle 2y ago
What a travesty. Maybe life was too long a sentence but this was far too short.
- Stagnant 2y ago
  10 years is plenty. No point in keeping non-violent offenders behind bars for absurd amounts of time.
  - sirbutters 2y ago
    Yea right. Drugs and violence are never mixed together /s. Just because he didn't commit violence himself (let's exclude his murder for hire. ahem.) does not mean no violence was ever caused because of his market place.
- mrkramer 2y ago
  I'm not pro life sentence but the guy who was selling literally tons of narcotics online from which people overdosed and died and the guy who was ordering murders of his narco enemies gets to spend only 10 years in jail is indeed ridiculous. Imo he should've spent 10 years more because this way it seems like he "just" robbed a bank or something and got 10 years and now it's like nothing happened. I'm stressing it out again, multiple people died from overdose because of him and multiple people were about to get executed because he hired hitman to kill them.
  - maxlin 2y ago
    Silk Road in how it worked removed almost all the criminal life exposure from the process. People undervalue that, as if it wasn't a thing.
    - mrkramer 2y ago
      That argument doesn't have any validity taking in consideration that it was still illegal to sell drugs online. In another words; legally it doesn't mean anything that it was safer to sell drugs online than it is on the streets, both are illegal. I have no sympathy for such "noble" entrepreneurs.

slt2021 2y ago

- sackler family engineered opioid crisis and went unscathed - hacking is a bogus charge applied to everything touching PCs - money laundering is another victimless crime that very few actual money launderers gets charged with, for some reason

daveguy 2y ago
Yeah, the Sacklers should be in jail too. And you didn't bother to address that he ran a market for illegal goods and services, for some reason.
- slt2021 2y ago
  >Sacklers should be in jail too. but they didn't, so we can forget about concept of justice.
arcticbull 2y ago
So that means Sackler should be charged, not that Ross should get off lol.
foogazi 2y ago
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- andirk 2y ago
  Case law obsessively cites other case law. So yeah, that's how it works. His trial was a farce and was meant to send a message to others to not, um, do drugs online or something.
  - foogazi 2y ago
    Drug Cartels were just categorized as terrorist organizations so I'm not sure the current admin is ok with drugs "But he was a libertarian!" Shrugs

beezle 2y ago

What a travesty. Maybe life was too long a sentence but this was far too short.

Stagnant 2y ago
10 years is plenty. No point in keeping non-violent offenders behind bars for absurd amounts of time.
- sirbutters 2y ago
  Yea right. Drugs and violence are never mixed together /s. Just because he didn't commit violence himself (let's exclude his murder for hire. ahem.) does not mean no violence was ever caused because of his market place.
mrkramer 2y ago
I'm not pro life sentence but the guy who was selling literally tons of narcotics online from which people overdosed and died and the guy who was ordering murders of his narco enemies gets to spend only 10 years in jail is indeed ridiculous. Imo he should've spent 10 years more because this way it seems like he "just" robbed a bank or something and got 10 years and now it's like nothing happened. I'm stressing it out again, multiple people died from overdose because of him and multiple people were about to get executed because he hired hitman to kill them.
- maxlin 2y ago
  Silk Road in how it worked removed almost all the criminal life exposure from the process. People undervalue that, as if it wasn't a thing.
  - mrkramer 2y ago
    That argument doesn't have any validity taking in consideration that it was still illegal to sell drugs online. In another words; legally it doesn't mean anything that it was safer to sell drugs online than it is on the streets, both are illegal. I have no sympathy for such "noble" entrepreneurs.