Commodore bases his support and opposition depending on who else opposes and supports them. Silk road? Since somebody was mocking Fortress Mises - he is a fan. FUG Da police yo! You can't stop Da internets and its drug markets. NCAA price fixing cartel/athete exploitation? Despite it being more or less actual serfdom - he is a fan. Billions being poured by private entities to capture & exploit regulatory regimes and exclude other market participants, aka Citizens United - he is a fan Police officers who murder "thug brutes" like Michael Brown, or Eric Garner, or Gray - Don't FUG da police, they are heroes just doing their job! The only commonality these things have is that his enemy, evil elite liberals who are always being funny and making jokes and living in their fancy pants cities with their so called culture and making their tv shows and such, have expressed some unaligned viewpoint, ergo, the Commodore readies his vast fleet of youtube videos for battle in defense of the little guys like Koch Industries, the NCAA, drug cartels, Police officers etc. He sucks so hard at everything, I'm asking again, is it all an act or is he that stupid?
American and British authorities feel very comfortable violating their own laws and applying excessive punishments to people who threaten them in this regard because they know how quickly technology moves, and they know that one technologically inclined individual could shake up society. See example: Aaron Swartz Ultimately, that leads to the dilution of rights for all. Breaking Tor in this manner shows that the authorities in questions are no longer living in a country of laws, but in a country of men. I thought the story did a good job of highlighting that. The implications for that are vaster than any marketplace gone amok. Really the questions at this point should be--who watches the watchers? Right now, that count stands stunningly thin.
