<div dir="ltr"><div>Well most of the negative social effects of drugs comes from them being illicit. Silk Road was interesting because it was a relatively anonymous market where vendors competed based on reputation and price rather than territory or such. It reduces the ability of vendors to reduce competition by actually murdering each other, so the focus moves to quality and price of product. It's still possible to con people with bad products, even kill them (caveat emptor), but the reputation system means that this is going to be minimised. The hit that he contracted was supposedly to protect his identity(?). Compare this to the Melbourne gangland killings for example (let alone freakin' Mexico or Columbia).<br><br></div>For evidence I submit Season 3 of The Wire<br><ducks><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2015 at 10:29, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@theispguy.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@theispguy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Not wanting to enter into a full debate... but he got what he deserved.<div><br></div><div>It might not BE murder/rape/etc... but drugs certainly causes a lot of that and destroys untold lives in many other ways.</div><div><br></div><div>Give him the bullet I say and don't worry about the cost of Life.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" color="#002060"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" color="#1F497D"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)"><br>...Skeeve</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)"><br>--</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)">Skeeve Stevens - <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The ISP Guy - Internet Provider SME</span></p></font></font><font style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" color="#002060"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" color="#1F497D"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)">Email: <a href="mailto:skeeve@theispguy.com" target="_blank">skeeve@theispguy.com</a> ; <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Cell: +61(0)414 753 383</span></p></font></font><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="Calibri" color="#20497d">Skype: skeeve; </font><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(32,73,125);font-family:Calibri">Blog: <a href="http://theispguy.com/" target="_blank">TheISPGuy.com</a> ; Facebook: </span><font style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" face="Calibri" color="#20497d"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/theispguy" target="_blank">TheISPGuy</a></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#002060"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" color="#1F497D"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(32,73,125)">Linkedin: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">/in/skeeve</a> ; <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Expert360: </span><a href="https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Profile</a></p></font></font></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Seamus Ryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.ryan@uber.com.au" target="_blank">s.ryan@uber.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Yikes. Guilty or not that is one hell of a sentence for non-violent crimes. You do less time for rape, murder and probably even being
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Seems US authorities were out to make an example of someone… and boy did they!
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Ross Ulbricht (founder Silk Road) gets life without parole<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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