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Better to ask, has the war on drugs made the world a more dangerous place?
I wonder if there is anyone who believes - really believes - it has not. The war on drugs is kind of this diorama encapsulation of everything that is wrong with our politics, media, and society.
As the article itself said, successor sites are inevitable (and there are at least two that are thriving right now in SR's fallout). Those who prefer online black markets over physical transactions will simply migrate to the new marketplaces and consequently turn them into the "new Silk Road". The only true effect, perhaps, will be people taking security even more seriously. I read a statistic at some point that appr…
> 80% of SR users didn't use PGP I find this to be dubious. How does PGP relate to SR usage? When people communicated with SR vendors, did they use email (where PGP might matter) or did they use the SR software? Did their forum software allow people to sign their posts? How was this information sourced? Was there just an informal poll on their forums?
PGP would be useful in ensuring that SR isn't tampering with your messages between any two parties on the site.
Better to ask, has the war on drugs made the world a more dangerous place?
Not a silk road user but being able to anonymously contract hitmen (and hitwomen) doesn't seem to make the world safer..
As the article itself said, successor sites are inevitable (and there are at least two that are thriving right now in SR's fallout). Those who prefer online black markets over physical transactions will simply migrate to the new marketplaces and consequently turn them into the "new Silk Road". The only true effect, perhaps, will be people taking security even more seriously. I read a statistic at some point that appr…
Although that appears to have been shut down as well and perhaps absconded with users money[0].
If you go here[1] (reddit) you'll see postings for a "sheep marketplace".
I went to the silk road once. Definitely very interesting to check out. It's pretty amazing 1.2B dollars worth of transactions were concluded there.
All in all I'm totally against the drug war even if I don't feel the need to order meth or lsd online.
[0] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/26/4773902/shuttered-undergro...
Better to ask, has the war on drugs made the world a more dangerous place?
I wonder if there is anyone who believes - really believes - it has not. The war on drugs is kind of this diorama encapsulation of everything that is wrong with our politics, media, and society.
Shutting it down certainly didn't help the US Post Office. Not a silk road user but being able to anonymously contract hitmen (and hitwomen) doesn't seem to make the world safer..
Well, I'm sure you're going to be able to buy weed no matter what.