The key difference is one donated heavily to the political ruling class while stealing from plebs, whereas the other created a website letting plebs freely trade with one another. image

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nobody 1 year ago
One wasn’t actively facilitating a platform that connected assassins to clients for hit jobs? This isn’t very honest.
Ross Ulbricht was never charged for murder-for-hire. The prevalence of this mistaken belief shows how effective the media smear campaign against him was, and still is.
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Chrys 1 year ago
#freeRoss #DecentralizetheCourts #DecentralizetheLaw #DecentralizeSecurity #Ancapistan #AustrianEconomics
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nobody 1 year ago
I never said he was charged for it. He facilitated and built a platform that had it. He was responsible for building one of the biggest black markets In history. I don’t agree with his sentencing but this original meme is hardly honest. “The district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht did commission the murders. The evidence that Ulbricht had commissioned murders was considered by the judge in sentencing Ulbricht to life and was a factor in the Second Circuit's decision to uphold the sentence”
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nobody 1 year ago
Huh? lol. SBF deserved what he got. Ross Ulbricht didn’t. Just saying that the meme isn’t exactly intellectually honest about the comparison between the two.
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nobody 1 year ago
Couldn’t agree more. He did still create a platform that facilitated illegal activity, which he knew, and he was charged for it. I was never arguing he hired assassins. Just that his platform was used for it by others.
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rfkill 1 year ago
This isn't even what was claimed in court (and not charged). What happened was that a two cops posed as a blackmailer and a hitman, and put pressure on him to accept the offer from the hitman to take out the blackmailer, which he allegedly accepted (which again was not officially charged or found guilty).
If he had actually murdered someone he might have a lighter sentence. They made an example of him.