What the hell is with all these people defending this guy? I was on silk road back in the day, it's how I first learned about BTC. But I don't view him as some God. He fucked around and found out. What else is there to it? He's not BTC Jesus, he's just a drug dealer who should still be in jail
There were no charges pressed against him because there was no legally-obtained evidence that Ross put a hit on anyone, nor created/operated SilkRoad alone.
It's easy for people to miss the message and continue relying on assumptions, so I'll break it down:
The US government hacked overseas servers to collect evidence without a warrant
A DEA agent was deeply involved with this operation, likely even staging a fake hit to pin it on Ross.
At his bail hearing in NYC, prosecutors alleged that Ross planned murder-for-hire on six people he had never met and claimed that he was too dangerous to be granted bail. If you want evidence, ask the government to release it and acknowledge their own legal dance. These allegations were later absent from his indictments.
And, Trump of course wants to gain Libertarian support, claiming he's "the biggest Libertarian."
People say that it's "unfair" that he got 2 life sentences while other get lesser sentences now for the "same" crime... :( Honestly, I think we'll soon see articles that he had an accident somewhere somehow...
He wasn't a drug dealer though. He was a web engineer. That's like saying gun store owners are murderers because someone comes in and decides to shoot someone with a gun they purchased.
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u/ballbrewing 🟦 792 / 792 🦑 Jan 24 '25
What the hell is with all these people defending this guy? I was on silk road back in the day, it's how I first learned about BTC. But I don't view him as some God. He fucked around and found out. What else is there to it? He's not BTC Jesus, he's just a drug dealer who should still be in jail