Comments on: Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gwern https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-2297825 Gwern Sun, 31 May 2015 15:22:55 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38152#comment-2297825 Spandrell: there is a currently operational black-market which has adopted a Russian communist kitsch theme… (No elections, though.)

]]> By: Spandrell https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-2297695 Spandrell Sun, 31 May 2015 10:41:18 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38152#comment-2297695 So it’s all fine if you call yourself Comrade Roberts and stage fake elections for the Chairmanship every 6 months.

Also hire a black transexual as Chief Technology Officer (don’t need to actually work there), and have a quote by some Democrat congressman on the top of the site arguing against the war on drugs.

]]> By: Bert https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-2297328 Bert Sat, 30 May 2015 23:21:56 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38152#comment-2297328 If someone who insisted on stealing cars were sentenced, would he be told he thought he was “better than the laws of this country”, and trying to be “beyond the law”? If laws against drugs weren’t resting on such a shaky moral ground, the sentence probably would have been less harsh.

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