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by Jasper_ 1314 days ago
This is the guy who thought about whether to sell cyanide to people or not, and decided that, yes, Silk Road should sell it ("myself" is Ross):

> myself: cyanide has a bad reputation

> myself: there are plenty of legitimate uses

> inigo: so we're going to allow it?

> myself: its bad for image/PR

> myself: i think we're going to allow it

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/silk-road-trial-...

You can't represent this guy as just selling some drugs, maybe. He knew what he was doing, and documented all of it.