Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
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Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
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#2Because real, actual murder isn't a serious enough crime for Life in Prison.
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#3My condolences go to the mutual friends Ross and I share.
Honestly, I don't have much sympathy for him directly (due to his complete and utter stupidity and lack of opsec), but I know this is going to hurt some people I care about, people who were good friends with Ross back in college, and I feel bad for them.
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#4This isn't really surprising. I think most "drug kingpins" would be able to get much shorter sentences by agreeing to turn in a bunch of smaller dealers. It seems like Ross' work was pretty solitary, so that wasn't really an option for him.
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#5Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?
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#6Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?
If he really did attempt to order a hit on someone, that changes the game a little. Now we're no longer talking about just drugs.
But I agree that it's absolutely insane if the charges are just drug-related -- rapists get far less time than many drug dealers.
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#7Fuck the war on drugs
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#8Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?
Ulbricht was also convicted of hiring a hitman.
edit: this is something that vice news [0] reported that is apparently wrong.
> But despite these setbacks, Ulbricht was ultimately convicted in February on a raft of charges, including drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and hiring assassins to take out members of Silk Road.
[0]: https://news.vice.com/article/ross-ulbricht-convicted-master...
Re: Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
#9Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?
If he really did attempt to order a hit on someone, that changes the game a little. Now we're no longer talking about just drugs. But I agree that it's absolutely insane if the charges are just drug-related -- rapists get far less time than many drug dealers.
As far as I can tell, he wasn't actually convicted of anything like that.
Re: Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
#10Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?
Ulbricht was also convicted of hiring a hitman. edit: this is something that vice news [0] reported that is apparently wrong. > But despite these setbacks, Ulbricht was ultimately convicted in February on a raft of charges, including drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and hiring assassins to take out members of Silk Road. [0]: https://news.vice.com/article/ross-ulbricht-convicted-master...
Do we actually have any proof of that or is it just something that the media is feeding us?