Ross Ulbricht, founder of darkweb market Silk Road, gave a speech to the US Republican Convention
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So we go shoot a bunch of Venezuelan fishing boats claiming they're hauling drugs and pardon the founder of a drug marketplace at the same time...
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
He passed the brown bag color test
It's not the drug marketplace I'm worried about...it's the attempt to hire a contract killer to kill someone that explains why he should be in jail.
Yeah! You want a job done, do it yourself! /s
That's precisely why I'm shocked. I understand the charge was dismissed during the trial, but due to technicalities rather than 'this has not happened'. WT actual F.
He became a MAGA figurehead a few years back, at least in the weirder corners. I remember an old maga getting weirdly defensive when I mentioned how I like the idea of silk road, but not the whole killing people aspect.
Nothing to see here citizen, please keep walking.
It’s almost as if it’s not really about the drugs… 🤔
Stuff is way more illegal when you're not white and male, everyone knows that
Holy shit, they pardoned him? What the actual fuck.
He gave a speech at the Libertarian National Convention promising to pardon Ulbricht if elected. That and the RFK Jr. deal helped him a great deal.
Bring back Silk Road if this is how it's gonna be. Need to acquire some meds outside the pharmaceutical system. For reasons. (MD won't give the good shit for "existential crisis due to fascism").
I've never used any crypto black markets, but this sort of shit fascinates me. My understanding is that silk road was effectively the "Pirate Bay" of crypto black markets. It was the most easily accessible, "good enough", and popular enough that it made headlines.
It was never the only one, or the true "source" or originator for much of the scene. These places absolutely still exist, but they're slightly less "open". Comparing to piracy again, it's like getting into a private tracker rather than using one of the known public ones. You have to dig just a little for it.
Don't know how much is agency honeypots or astroturfing, but last time I browsed the dark web one of the most popular "subreddits" on what is supposedly TOR's biggest reddit equivalent was all discussion of current marketplaces and their specialties, annoyances, and trustworthiness.
Darknet markets never stopped being a thing, they just got shut down and replaced with different ones every so often
When? Looks recent.
That was 3 days ago
https://x.com/cspan/status/2098198677001035967
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/libertarian-icon-ross-ulbricht-praises-004013006.html
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-vance-midterm-elections-2026-rnc/card/silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-thanks-trump-for-pardon-UGEcnoJU1uLnOj6NcQed
The anarchist backdrop was an interesting choice.