[RutZap]

I think this is brilliant. A very efficient way of policing and removing a lot of drugs from the market without spending a lot of public money and wasting time on the streets.

Also the darknet is great as it reduces the violence associated with drug crime, by taking the drugs off the streets and into the legitimate courier business. You have to love technology sometimes.

[olegkikin]

How does that reduce the violence? Now the buyers have to go to the streets to get their drugs.

Prohibition doesn't work. It creates much more violence than it solves.

[RutZap]

I agree that prohibition doesn't work, but the police needs to do their bit as well. And if a darknet marketplace is taken offline, I don't think its users will have to go on the streets, there are many other marketplaces out there; just in the same way as when a street dealer is arrested, people will just end using a different one.

It seems that you are actually agains policing it, which is not the way forward, as there is a large amount of the population which is against drugs, and their needs need to be accounted for by the Government. So by catering for both parties (users/dealers and police), the darknet is a viable solution that helps everybody in the end (efficient purchase, efficient policing, less violence, less waste).

[jstanley]

It seems like your statements are contradictory.

This bust was good because it reduced the amount of drugs being sold on dark net markets.

Dark net markets are good because they reduce the amount of drugs being sold on the street.

So which is it? Is it a good thing to take down the dark net markets or not?

[RutZap]

It's both. From the legal point of view, it's good that drugs are removed from the market, and from a violence point of view, it's good that it's all on the darknet. By clamping down on a marketplace you're basically just attracting attention to it and more people will start using it for buying drugs, thus, there will be less violence as everything is moved online. Also, the police did their job in a much more efficient manner like this. So it's bad for the dealers involved, but ultimately good for society.

[hackermailman]

A lot of org crime mail order wholesale to distribute at street level, it's how fentanyl got into my country so doesn't stop street trade. Same with Australia there are gangs here that flood the mail system with meth and fentanyl to their gang counterparts there hoping some get through as prices 3x higher there so can afford losses. Ending prohibition would shut all this down though I can't see any politicians surviving a reelection if they do.

[RutZap]

Yes, sadly a lot of wholesale is done at street level and supplied using the darknet, but at the same time, I see more end consumers purchasing online.

[Axsuul]

I think that first line was meant to be sarcastic.

[RutZap]

Not really. As a tax paying citizen I like to see good use of my tax money, and I think this is actually an efficient way of policing.