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No, silk road did not sell weapons. There was legal content like pornography and other media on there, but Ulbricht was an idealist and excluded material with "
by eckmLJE 2y ago
No, silk road did not sell weapons. There was legal content like pornography and other media on there, but Ulbricht was an idealist and excluded material with "intent to harm".
- kerkeslager 2y agoNotably, as Ullbricht predicted, the Silk Road was immediately replaced by sites which did not have such ideals, and openly sold weapons and illegal pornography.
- consp 2y agoThey were there already and shutting down the silk road changed nothing in that perspective.
- NovemberWhiskey 2y agoSo all the people who got convicted for selling firearms on Silk Road, how'd that happen then?
- kerkeslager 2y agoIt didn't happen. Ctrl-F for "Products" on this page[1] and stop making shit up. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
- Algent 2y agoInteresting and surprising they really had rules, thanks for the clarification. I'm ashamed to say I opened this page and read it wrong the first time by skipping the first sentence.
- busymom0 2y agoYou might be interested in my comment about Carnegie Mellon University's researchers findings on what Silk Road sold/didn't sell/what was popular.
- red-iron-pine 2y agodon't conflate Silk Road == all Darknet Markets plus in North America you don't really need a darknet market to get a gun illegally. US FedGov ain't gonna get to involved in illegal gun sales in Europe.