Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison

He created a marketplace for crime. I have no problems at all with his sentence. Hopefully all the copycats get the same.

 

What's the penalty for Anhieser Busch, american liquor companies and Big Tobacco?

Their market destroys lives and kills more people than this guy ever did.

 

Well, I get your meaning, but I'll quibble -- alcohol and tobacco companies don't make marketplaces, they just make products.

 

So why is there a BUREAU of Tobacoo ,Alcohol and firearms if there is no such industry?

In addition, didn't wall street also created an environment where fraud and tax evasion, hiding money on offshore accounts was/is rampant?

 

Attempted murder isn't an internet based crime.

 

Yeah, lots of people taking ideological stands on this while ignoring that he was also nailed for trying to purchase a colleague's murder and, for a time, thought it had actually happened.

 

I'd love to see you document exactly how "many lives have been ruined by the recreational use of mar1juana and ecstasy."

I'll save you the trouble, it is a minuscule number.

 

Taxes paid could easily cover treatment for the minuscule percentage who develop problem drug use.

 

Unfortunately tobacco and alcohol are legal. If Silk Road only sold that Ross would not be in prison.

 

where im from meth and alcohol are the biggest killers. those who smoke weed usually are lazy and working at the mcdonalds but they are not a danger to themselves or others

 

You just Brightsided, lol. There needs to be an official gif for people getting Brightsided around here.

 

Don't forget this fact
You can't get it back
Cocaine

 

In the absence of prohibition, those who wanted to use amphetamines could get safe, pharmaceutical grade products like those the Air Force gives to pilots. In such a world, the tax revenues could fund treatment for the tiny number of people who exhibit problem use.

 

Did my sarcasm detector malfunction?

 

So what exactly was he charged for that earned him a life sentence? Forgive my ignorance here, but didn't he just make some sort of website that people used to engage in the black market? Was it tax evasion or something?

 

Doesn't matter... He was cutting into the government's drug smuggling business and since it eliminates the element of violence it makes law enforcement useless.

And a bunch of people would be out of work and the private prison system would lose money. That's why law enforcement and private prisons spend big lobby dollars just to keep drugs like mar1juana illegal.

 

He was convicted of running a continuing criminal enterprise, one of the acts in furtherance thereof was trying to murder one of its employees.

 

basically a Craigslist for illegal goods which he wasn't personally handling

The charges are narcotics trafficking; distribution of narcotics by means of the Internet; narcotics trafficking conspiracy; continuing criminal enterprise; conspiracy to aid and abet computer hacking; conspiracy to traffic in fraudulent identity documents; and money laundering conspiracy.

 

See folks - if you run an online drug ring, tried to murder one of your employees but you're a white dude who likes Ayn Rand and bitcoin, - you're just a victim to Commodore.

If you're Eric Garner, and you resold a cigarrete - you're fair game and **** happens bro.