@Requiem 600078 wrote:
Sorry GL but I reckon Ulbricht was fucked from the very beginning..
his attempt at defending his actions made things far worse though – he wasn’t the only high level person from darknet dealing to get busted around the same time and a lot of them have only got penalties similar to the Dutch guy; even if they were tried in the USA.
His attempts to disrupt political structures both inside and outside the USA were otherwise no different from most of the tech CEOs (indeed some of them have been hauled up by feds for financial crimes the committed in 1990s and 2000s) but both those and dealing rarely result in life sentences. At the same time people who aren’t white and middle class must end up going down for decades in USA if the feds / vigilantés or rival dealers don’t shoot them first.
it would be interesting to compare the US penalties with what the European darknet dealers get although it is very likely that NL and DE privacy laws and the young age of the offenders (below 30) cause reporting restrictions to kick in (it will probably be about 10-15 years because they were selling guns as well but with a chance of early release).
