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Post by dredmorbius »

loeg wrote: post #129

Any non-twitter reporting on this? Edit: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-silk-road-fou...

Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/ross-ulbrich...>

CNN: https://lite.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/silk-road-ross-ulbr...>

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5270051/trump-pardons-d...>

MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-pardons-...>

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-silk-road-fou...>

AP: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-pardons-...>

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Post by mergy »

wolfgang42 wrote: post #173

Tangentially related: I had the disconcerting experience of reading a Wired article about his arrest[1] while unknowingly sitting about six feet from the spot where he was apprehended. When I read that the FBI agents had stopped at Bello Coffee while preparing their stakeout, I thought, huh, interesting coincidence, I just had a coffee there. Then Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table dire…

Give it up for Glen Park.

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Post by ActorNightly »

steve_avery wrote: post #55

Well, I think that justice has been served. The feds' prosecution of Ulbricht was the epitome of throwing the book at someone to make an example, when the government's case was pretty flawed, in my opinion. 10 years is enough time to pay the debt of running the silk road. I am glad that Ulbricht has been pardoned and I feel like a small iota of justice has been returned to the world with this action.

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Post by cratermoon »

Just a reminder: the condition for accepting a pardon is acknowledging that you did commit the crime in question and accept the court's finding of guilt.

In contrast: Biden didn't pardon Leonard Peltier, the president commuted his sentence. Peltier maintains his innocence.

Re: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

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Post by cratermoon »

l0ng1nu5 wrote: post #14
yuppiepuppie wrote: post #8

Wasn’t he in jail for hiring a contract killer? I’m all for the freeing him of his crimes when it comes to his crypto anarchic philosophy. But I find it hard to pardon someone for contract killing essentially. Also I’m not an apologist for the FBIs handling of this case either.

I haven't reviewed the info for a while but it was pretty clearly entrapment as I recall.

By accepting the pardon the accused concedes to guilt in the crime.

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Post by zanek »

steve_avery wrote: post #55

Well, I think that justice has been served. The feds' prosecution of Ulbricht was the epitome of throwing the book at someone to make an example, when the government's case was pretty flawed, in my opinion. 10 years is enough time to pay the debt of running the silk road. I am glad that Ulbricht has been pardoned and I feel like a small iota of justice has been returned to the world with this action.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading the comments on this thread. Multiple teenagers (one in Australia) died from the drugs distributed on Silk Road. Ross was ok with selling grenades, body parts, etc on there. But everyone is saying he served his time ???

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Post by wolfgang42 »

internet2000 wrote: post #305
coliveira wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The responses to this comment show that people's ability to read and comprehend text has decreased dramatically in the last few years. Frightening...

If every reply is pointing out how confusing it is, maybe the original comment is just poorly written.

You’re not going to hear from the people who thought it made perfect sense, so the replies are a pretty biased sample. (This is also true of the parent complaint about reading comprehension, tbh.) But I see three confused replies and three corrections (not counting my own), so it doesn’t seem to be every reply.

I think the problem is that I took an artistic style in an attempt to paint a picture for the reader, but I did it in a long thread on a technical forum where people are probably mostly skimming rather than engaging in literary criticism, so I should maybe have anticipated this would be a problem.

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Post by Cornbilly »

vvpan wrote: post #127

When Snowden, is my question. RFK put a lot of words into "if I am in charge that'll be my first thing". Yeah, he's not the president but he's also not nobody anymore.

Oh that’s going to be good if it happens.

Everyone will celebrate Trump’s good deed while he funnels more government money to companies like Palantir to do things similar to PRISM.

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Post by cush »

wolfgang42 wrote: post #173

Tangentially related: I had the disconcerting experience of reading a Wired article about his arrest[1] while unknowingly sitting about six feet from the spot where he was apprehended. When I read that the FBI agents had stopped at Bello Coffee while preparing their stakeout, I thought, huh, interesting coincidence, I just had a coffee there. Then Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table dire…

Before I got to the edit I was convinced you were in The Neverending Story
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