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RE: How The Silk Road TERRIFIED The Global Establishment - The Free Ross Campaign with Lyn Ulbricht
You are using wrong examples to justify your point. None of the people you mentioned invented a covert platform for illegal operations inside a country. I don't hold any opinion on this matter but Silkroad was giving coverage to people to do criminal activities and help them to get away with it. So there were consequences for it. It wasn't like that he didn't know his platform is making money for the sake of illegal operations, all the reason SilkRoad was a successful marketplace was because you could do anything inside it.
If it was done knowingly then Ross is convicted justly, but the prison sentence is very long, and as they said in the interview, you have to look at the judge's personal political views part also. Moreover the term of sentence is not justified when compared with the largest sentences given to the drug dealers in the past.
Could be, but that's not OP's demane in the post. It states that Ross sacrificed for us (who is us? ) And should be freed. It just doesn't make sense for me.
I think the main important person in the interview was his mother, not Josh. Josh interviewed her, and what she said is true. She didn't ask to free him completely, what she said is what I reported in my above message. Josh has his point of view, let him have that.
She was making sense to me but Josh doesn't have a good understanding about freedom. Freedom doesn't mean everyone can do anything they want. People were hiring hitmen in that website to kill others. It's not freedom, it's anarchy.
By your logic. All officers of every phone company, officers of Facebook, and nearly every other provider of communication should be equally charged and sentenced. You are defending highly selective enforcement of poorly reasoned laws. Ross created something that others used for illegal activity. He did not actively "cover" for anyone.
The difference is that Facebook and communication companies with any court order would provide information of users to authorities and Silkroad would tell them to go f*k yourself. It was exactly a covert and that's why people were selling drugs there instead of Facebook pages.