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arp242 | parent | next
Aaron tried to give the world free access to information for no personal gain.

Ross ran an online marketplace for drugs and other illegal materials for personal profit.

The life sentence was ridiculous, but they're not he same at all.

It's the difference between Chelsea Manning or Snowden leaking state secrets and someone who sells on state secrets to the Russians or Chinese.

ionwake | root | parent
I think thats a biased answer and strawman argument. He made a platform where anything coudl be sold as he was a libertarian. It actually echoes what the ethos of hackernews is, to build a product everyone uses.

He didnt sell anything, so your metaphor doesn't correlate at all.

Also Aaron las literally a CEO of a company. Im not complaining about Aaron, he did have higher thoughts on how to help society but my point was about entrepeneurship.

If you want to come onto a ycombinator forum and say "hey this website creator was bad", then argue the case without comparing him to "user" of the site, which was my pretty simple point. Otherwise you just make yourself look bad.

I do not agree with his behaviour, I am saying he made a site, and got into trouble because of what happened on it. This sets a precedent that affects startup entrepeneur. Its a simple concept I am discussing. So dont strawman this.

I want you to convince me, but if you need to be logical.

arp242 | root | parent | next
Saying "this is my ideology" is not really all that believable if you stand to make millions with that ideology. I don't know what's in his hearth of hearths and to be honest I don't really care. All I'm saying it's just not comparable at all.
ionwake | root | parent
EDIT> Also I am not sure if you downvoted me, I upvoted you as I appreciate your time in sharing your view. thanks.
darknavi | parent
Not going to try and sway you here but to learn more, read or listen to "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road".

Truly fascinating story and good story telling.

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