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Maybe 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 Si
by pyre 12y ago
Maybe 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.