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The “police have been devoting a huge amount of resources to track down peaceful people engaged in voluntary trade like Charlie Shrem and the operators
by orik 12y ago
The “police have been devoting a huge amount of resources to track down
peaceful people engaged in voluntary trade like Charlie Shrem and the
operators of the Silk Road Market,” Ver says
The part you left out is the most context that that statement was made by Ver, someone interviewed for the article, and no real claim was being made that the Silk Road is peacefully run.
You can gain additional insight into the statement when you look at how Robert McMillian introduces Ver, a few paragraphs back.
Ver put a 37 bitcoin bounty on [the hackers] head.
[Ver] was himself sentenced to 10 months in federal prison...
- pyre 12y agoMaybe I'm wrong in this, but I read: peaceful people engaged in voluntary trade like [...] the operators of the Silk Road Market to be a claim that the Silk Road Market operators were "peaceful people" that the FBI had no business going after. I don't know anything about the case against Charlie Shrem, but that "and" groups Charlie Shrem and the Silk Road operators into the same bucket. So long as that quote is being faithfully reproduced, I don't see how talking about his prison sentence has much to do with what I'm talking about.
- orik 12y agoI don't mean to say those guys aren't scumbags - I'm sure some of them are. I just wanted to point out the opinion of the silk road presented in the article was not an opinion belonging to wired but instead it belongs to this Ver guy, who is in fact a criminal.