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Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee

Posted by timothy on from the dread-pirate-ok-he's-a-dread-pirate dept.

Robotron23 writes "Further charges have been made against Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht, aka 'Dread Pirate Roberts'. Yesterday saw the shutdown of Silk Road, a website Ulbricht founded which specialized in the sale of illegal items such as recreational drugs. As well as paying for a hit on a forum member, Ulbricht later requested an undercover agent murder an arrested employee of Silk Road, terming it 'the right move.' Upon receiving staged photos of torture and eventually the corpse, Ulbricht paid in full."

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  1. Credible, unfortunately. by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People who think they've invented a better society are the nastiest sort. The biggest problem is that they're stupid - they create a simplistic, inadequate set of rules to live by. Whether they're underground libertards (as here), staunch conservatives or flag-waving Leninists, they soon find that their utopia isn't quite working out the way they planned.

    And then they start killing people.

    1. Re:Credible, unfortunately. by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Don't strawman, now. Trying to create a better society is a very different thing from thinking you've invented one.