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Irish Court Orders Alleged Silk Road Admin To Be Extradited To US (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A 27-year-old Irishman who American prosecutors believe was a top administrator on Silk Road named "Libertas" has been approved for extradition to the United States. According to the Irish Times, a High Court judge ordered Gary Davis to be handed over to American authorities on Friday. In December 2013, federal prosecutors in New York unveiled charges against Davis and two other Silk Road staffers, Andrew Michael Jones ("Inigo") and Peter Phillip Nash ("Samesamebutdifferent"). They were all charged with narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy. After a few years of operation, Silk Road itself was shuttered when its creator, Ross Ulbricht, was arrested in San Francisco in October 2013. Ulbricht was convicted at a high-profile trial and was sentenced to life in prison in May 2015.
precisely what I was thinking.
>They were all charged with narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy.
That is exactly what the FBI do.
he did a crime, and now gets prosecuted for it. Normal business of a state. Plus, its nothing controversial. Its not piracy, its real crimes like drug trading or murder for hire. Slashdot front page is not worth this irrelevant story.
Will it be Pokemon GO?
Will it be a hack or a leak?
Will it be Microsoft Anniversary or Google's latest brainfart?
Will it be look at the finger.. pointing at the moon...
This is a complete disgrace. This is an Irish citizen. If he's committed a crime on Irish soil he should be tried in and Irish court under Irish law.
The idea that countries, mainly America, can now extradite people all over the world sticks two fingers up at the idea of sovereign states.
What's next ? An American being sent to face the death penalty because there's a video of them dropping some chewing gum on the streets of Singapore ?
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Fucking cunts.
My thoughts exactly, especially the life sentence of Ulbricht. That is simply insane considering the harm reduction SR offered to people who were going to buy their dope anyways. 10 years max, plus 10 for each attempted murder for higher would be much more just and sane.
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>murder for higher
Please tell me that was intentional
An Irishman arrested for crime he committed while residing in Ireland (did he spend any time in the US?).
Presumably this happened because the Silk Road facilitated crimes in the US. But does it even go the other way? Are there ever people extradited from the US because their online activities broke the law in other countries? Could any country have done the same and the FBI is just the one to have bothered, or was there something specific to the US that happened?
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Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
By moving the drug trade online, and away from street corners and school yards, SR was certainly reducing harm for the public, but it was also a challenge to the police state, the prison industry, and the politicians that service them. Crime in America is a fraction of what it was 25 years ago, yet we have more police, and more prison inmates than ever*. The public needs to wake up and realize what is happening. We need to vote for drug legalization, and we need to stop voting for the pro-police candidates. This November, look for the candidates that are endorsed by the police/prison-guard unions, and please vote for someone else.
*No, the prison expansion did not "cause" the decline in crime. The fall in crime was well underway before the prison buildout started. Some states expanded prisons far more than others, yet had no greater fall in crime. The fall in crime happened throughout the developed world, yet only America had a prison expansion craze.
FBI and American court system is trying hard to protect the last remnants of a failed economy that USA is running. Left without production, manufacturing sectors, latest economic numbers showing that even the service sector jobs are disappearing the American court system and various agencies are trying their best to protect whatever is left to protect out of the old glory days of American productivity. When nothing is left, the only thing that matters is protecting the remaining crust of the former pie with all the weaponry available, that's what you are observing here.
You can't handle the truth.
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down with fascists
Srsly what is this dumb shit
America better be prepared to hand over Hugh Hefner and all Playboy, Hustler and all those online porn stars over to countries that ban porn for violating their laws or facilitating for those laws to be broken for those looking to do so.
The allegations about murder-for-hire were never proven in the court or even charged iirc. He was basically convicted for being in a criminal enterprise by running the marketplace. There are plenty of violent criminals who got far lighter sentences than Ulbricht for basically acting as an online middleman for illegal transactions.
IMHO, you could probably imprison the CEO of Ebay for being the biggest fence of stolen goods under the same theory.
Yeah, but that guy paid the right people and thus will never be charged. Ulbright, Schwartz and Applebaum are just an example for what happens if you want to create a truly anonymous space that can't be controlled or inspected by governments.
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I guess drug traficking equals jail time in ireland too, right? then why the extradition, its retarded and unnecesary, just jail him in ireland for whatever the time it says in irish law and be done with it
yeah i know he did crime in US too because he was sending stuff all over the fucking planet, but if you do it in both countries and one of those countries has notoriously violent prisons and private prisons, and the highest amount of incarcerated people in the fucking world (that being USA), it makes no sense, It just goes to show that irish nationality is worthless, that meaning literally, having no value at all, and that the irish legislators that passed that extradition law are really clueless
i guess the mistake here is to consider anglo saxon countries as actual different countries, when in fact they have never been, and they will never be
Speaking about extradition amongst the british the scotish, the irish the australians and the americans, hell, even the canadians, is lame, they are the same country, they have always been
Remember, every country in the west is its own independent, sovereign nation and they just decide all on their own with absolutely no pressure that it is in the best interest of their domestic affairs to follow the agenda of larger nations exactly
Americans for one reason or another and they send us.
Shame on Ireland for extraditing one of its citizen to a country that would certainly not do the same for its own citizen.
That person should have been prosecuted in Ireland.
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My thoughts exactly, especially the life sentence of Ulbricht.
Ulbricht and his friends were thumbing their collective noses at the most powerful government in the world while maintaining a high profile operation. It's not surprising that when that government caught them it chose to make examples out of them. The lefties and free spirits out there should think about that the next time they vote for more centralization and powerful national (or worse international) government. That concentrated power can easily destroy any individual and it could one day be used against them too.
AC was saying the FBI @ Slashdot are fucking cunts. You didn't read it right.
Normal business of a state, there is no such thing. In American normal business of FBI is drugs, lying, murdering, lying more.