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Regardless of how you feel about drugs, he also hosted (and profited from) markets for identity theft tools, hacking tools, and he tried to have his enemies ass

• Energy1 12y ago
  > Only sociopaths and libertarians are holding him up as some bastion of morality. I dont think anyone is. Rather, the moralists are making an example out of him to further their own cause.
• Eleopteryx 12y ago
  I haven't heard anything regarding his alleged hit since he was originally arrested. It's also not one of the formal charges brought against him, which is odd because it's significantly more damning than running a marketplace for drugs. Identify theft and hacking tools are both pretty (a|im)moral, though.
• dthunt 12y ago
  Well, he's ALLEGED to have done that. People are becoming increasingly interested in the case because it's looking probable that enforcement/prosecution has done something untoward. Everybody has an interest in law enforcement operating under the rules that supposed to constrain its behavior. If the prosecution can straight up lie to the court about how evidence is gathered with impunity, then at the very least it may be an effective strategy to raise the cost of effective defense. More scarily, it may be used to cover up useful lines of defense. In every case, you should imagine an innocent man accused, and consider whether the tactics used against him are designed to demonstrate the truth, to cast artifacts in a false light, or to raise the odds of conviction regardless of the truth. We should never convict on the strength of the information that someone has been charged.