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Re: SilkRoad domain Seized?
by
Alonzo Ewing
on 02/10/2013, 19:50:57 UTC
What exactly is your criticism here?  That he was an ideological crusader?  Because so was Satoshi.  That he was a drug dealer?  Fair enough; some people find that distasteful.  That he was an an-cap?  Well, so is probably 20% of the community here.  That he claimed to be a libertarian but did some unlibertarian things like buying a hitman's services, selling forged documents, etc?  Hey, that's something most people can agree on.

Of course drug dealers don't want drugs legalized. DPR claimed he wasn't just a simple dealer but rather some ideological crusader for a better tomorrow (by which he meant: anarcho-capitalism, his idea of utopia). He wasn't only selling drugs remember, but also malware, forged documents, he experimented with selling weaponry, etc ...