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Topic: A slap to the FBI. Online drug sales triple after Silk Road closure - page 3. (Read 1722 times)

sr. member
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You guys act like the agencies actually want to win the war.
If they eliminated all drugs  they would be out of a job. 
They aren't trying to get rid of drugs. 
They have a system set up where they get to buy cars, guns, planes, all types of high-tech equipment,
employ police on the street, secret undercover agents, prosecutors and judges, and a prison industry to lock all the offenders up.
Its a business, and they are making a ton of money off a neverending "war".
legendary
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You lead and I'll watch you walk away.
It's probably the purest definition of whack-a-mole that there'll ever be. People like drugs. People like buying things online. Once someone manages to successfully decentralise it, though I've no idea how you could do that in terms of escrow, they'll be with us until the end of time.

Perfect summary.

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legendary
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It's probably the purest definition of whack-a-mole that there'll ever be. People like drugs. People like buying things online. Once someone manages to successfully decentralise it, though I've no idea how you could do that in terms of escrow, they'll be with us until the end of time.
Yep, knock one drug empire down and about 3.1415 drug empires pop up in its place.  It's a vicious circle.  People may not realize that in 1900 you could buy morphine and cocaine over the counter at pharmacies.  And the world still functioned.  Today we have drug cartels beheading people to send messages to their competitors.  The alphabet agencies ought to modify their policies, and the president and all his men ought to mandate they do so.  All of the laws to fight the war on drugs have failed, spectacularly so.  There's no need to spend more fucking money on this.  Viva la Silk Road.
legendary
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It's probably the purest definition of whack-a-mole that there'll ever be. People like drugs. People like buying things online. Once someone manages to successfully decentralise it, though I've no idea how you could do that in terms of escrow, they'll be with us until the end of time.
legendary
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We all know that Ross Ulbricht was made an example of and was given a sentence so hard that they thought it will discourage others from following the footsteps of DPR. They were wrong.

NBC news has reported that online drug sales have tripled since the closure of the Silk Road. http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/online-drug-sales-triple-after-silk-road-closure-n627576

This is a link to the study that was made about it. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1600/RR1607/RAND_RR1607.pdf

This could be a silent victory for all the supporters of DPR and deep inside they are laughing at the authorities. I know I am.
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