Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangerous Place?
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#2Better to ask, has the war on drugs made the world a more dangerous place?
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#3Do News Story Headlines Always Have To Ask A Huge Rhetorical Question?
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#4As 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 approx. 80% of SR users didn't use PGP (The Daily Dot sources this claim, otherwise I cannot validate it).
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#5Do News Story Headlines Always Have To Ask A Huge Rhetorical Question?
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#6Do News Story Headlines Always Have To Ask A Huge Rhetorical Question?
I like article titles with rhetorical questions because I don't need to read the article.
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#7Better 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.
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#8Well, I'm sure you're going to be able to buy weed no matter what.
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#9Do News Story Headlines Always Have To Ask A Huge Rhetorical Question?
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Re: Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangerous Place?
#10As 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?