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mrpopo01/22/20254 repliesview on HN

Pretty sure Silk Road enabled loads of pedophiles to go about their activities. This is a false equivalence


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silver_silver01/22/2025

> The site's terms of service prohibited the sale of certain items. When the Silk Road marketplace first began, the creator and administrators instituted terms of service that prohibited the sale of anything whose purpose was to "harm or defraud." This included child pornography, stolen credit cards, assassinations, and weapons of any type

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)#Produc...

sweettea01/22/2025

Despite Silk Road explicitly banning CSAM, and the feds not charging Ulbricht with it when you know they would love the positive PR if they could?

mardifoufs01/22/2025

What do you mean? Did it actually allow selling anything related to pedophilia? Like CSAM?

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rossjailed4less01/22/2025

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