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echoangle | on: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Sure, but the crime isn’t murder. And they aren’t getting life for it.
Pesthuf | parent
If their business sold alcohol to as many teenagers as the Silk Road has sold drugs, then yes, they would get life.
butlike | root | parent
Then why isn't the CEO of anheiser-busch given two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years?
mc32 | root | parent
AB-InBev does not sell directly to consumers. They have a distributor model of operation.
echoangle | root | parent
You mean how Silk Road didn’t actually sell anything but was only a marketplace?
realce | root | parent
Doing business in, or running, a marketplace without established legal regulations opens you up to undefined consequences. Without laws to bind you, there are no laws to protect you.