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RE: Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now on Twitter
Its insanity, at least with assange there is sympathy. Because people are more aware of the good he is doing. With this guy, people had no clue what he did. Today if you ask a random person about silk road, they will think it was designed by some drug cartel leader to facilitate the drug trade. Absolute junk.
Just check his Wikipedia page - drug trafficker, money launderer, blah blah. May be that's why satoshi nakamoto stayed hidden.
That's a good point, that what he did is sort of vaguely in the realm of Assange, they're both mostly a political type of threat, yet they're seen as kind of totally different categories of people.
I guess they needle the system in different ways. I feel like Ross is actually a bigger threat. Wikileaks is more famous, but exposing dirt like that, while I'm sure it's annoying to them, doesn't seem like a systematic threat to anything. Ross was a pretty direct threat to all the interests surrounding drug illegality.
And then of course people are just kind of used to "drugs = bad", and they know what a drug lord is. So then they just cast Ross as that sort of thing. Whereas with Assange it's more unprecedented and there isn't a dark and scary model to lump him into.