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by jjulius 1732 days ago
Yeah, again, you're injecting your own biases as you create assumptions about my comments, rather than stopping to ask what I mean before you fly off the handle. See how I used "moderated" in quotes in my very first response? That suggests that I'm using the term rather loosely.

All I've said was that that's how illegal content is moderated on the internet - it is removed. Silk Road was removed, AlphaBay was removed, DarkMarket was removed, many others have been removed, and many more will continue to be removed even if Tor makes that a slow process. At no point did I bring up whether or not I thought it was "right" to remove them, or to treat Ulbricht in that manner (again, you're assuming I don't know what happened). I said "moderating" with quotes, for lack of a better word.

If something's illegal - even if you and I think it shouldn't be - then it's typically going to be removed at some point, even if it takes a while because something like Tor makes it difficult. And in that sense, yes, the internet is "moderated" for that content. That's all I've said/argued, and I truly don't understand how that is so difficult for you to grasp.

>It's quite probable that without his arrest, it would have persisted even if on newly acquired hardware. ... Instead, after his arrest the content ended up on new platforms rather than the Silk Road platform.

For implying that I don't know what happened, you seem to be forgetting that other Silk Road staff started Silk Road 2.0 after his arrest, but that was also shut down.

>What are you talking about? You feel attacked because your poorly constructed argument was laid open.

Nope. You allow your biases to creep in to your poor interpretations of other people's comments, and then angrily respond to them as such. My initial response was simple, but your strongly held beliefs have clouded your responses.