“In May 2013, through an interagency taskforce led by ICE in Baltimore, Maryland, three U.S. bank accounts associated with what was then the world’s largest bitcoin exchanger, Japan-based Mt.Gox, which was moving approximately $60 million per month into a number of Internet-based hidden black markets operating on the Tor network, including Silk Road, were seized for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1960, operating a money service business in the United States without a license. The bulk of the funds were associated with the illicit purchase of drugs, firearms, and child pornography.”
A good friend of mine has a theory of how we use "negative entropy" sources to help us more easily get things done. An example of a "negative entropy" source are words that create a strong emotional response, like those shown in bold above.
His theory is that we will use these words (neg-entropy) to dump entropy into until we've extracted all of the useful work from the source. At this point, these words actually begin to have the opposite effect on the public as they once did.
I think we are at that point already. Whenever I hear "terrorist," "drugs," "money laundering," or "child porn" my instant emotional response is
against the person who is trying to use these words to advance their agenda.
