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At the same time he is threatening to tariff China 10% due to their responsibility for fentanyl, lol
Fentanyl wasn't big yet when Silk Road was around. And besides, people were buying straight from China off the clearnet
I see so many Trump adjacent folks demanding we lock up drug dealers, deport them, whatever. But they want to let this one go.
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I am happy to see that Trump is a man of his word. I voted for him just because of this campaign promise. I would have voted for almost anyone who promised this.
I would find this easier to celebrate if it was a commutation and not a pardon, or if it was a pardon that went hand in hand with a change in the laws he broke.
Trump doesn't have the power to unilaterally change laws (fortunately!)
Genuine question: Of all the people to pardon, why him?
Presumably musk pushed for it. Not sure who else in/near the administration would even have him on their radar
The tweet:
Absolute no brainer, he should be celebrated. Countless lives were saved via the harm reduction effect of a peer reviewed, reputation based platform. Of course if we had less draconian drug policy, it wouldn't be necessary but here we are.
> Countless lives were saved via the harm reduction effect of a peer reviewed, reputation based platform. The basic immorality/pointlessness of the war on drugs aside, I don't know how you can assert this: it's not like there's a chain of provenance, and there's no particular guarantee that whatever grade of pure drugs was sold on Silk Road is the same purity that ended up in peoples' bodies. My understanding of the…
Their observation was that reputation mattered on SR a lot and a well-kept reputation was valuable at scale in a way that it isn't for being a street-corner pusher looking to stretch your buck by cutting your supply with adulterants. The smart play was to provide a high-quality product at a reasonable price (the latter being the easiest part since they were bypassing the obscene markup of official channels).
Will he get his possesions back then? 50,676 bitcoins, today valued at 5,3 billion USD. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...
At the same time he is threatening to tariff China 10% due to their responsibility for fentanyl, lol
Fentanyl wasn't big yet when Silk Road was around. And besides, people were buying straight from China off the clearnet