They also aren’t facilitating scam artists. Yet I see rampant scam activity every day on Facebook.
The operative word here is facilitating.
As with any Website, Facebook is riddled with nefarious players. They take advantage of the easy access. No Facebook isn’t facilitating that activity, but it takes place anyway.
That is exactly the case with Silk Road. Yes, the activity was taking place, but they weren’t facilitating it. Shutting it down did nothing to stop the activity and neither did putting Ulbricht in jail for life.
I’m not arguing against good parenting, that’s a silly strawman you’ve created. I’m arguing that laws that prevent children from buying alcohol, cocaine, pornography, etc., are valuable to society and should be enforced.
Well, if there are scam artists using Facebook to steal from people, then Facebook is indeed facilitating them. But Facebook tries to prevent those types of illegal activities and works with law enforcement. That’s the difference. If Silk Road had worked with authorities to try to prevent the sale of crack to kids, I would not have supported shutting them down. But they did the opposite.
I’ve been watching these scam artists operate pretty much untouched on Facebook for years. How do I know they are scam artists? Because they attempted to scam me. I saw through the scam after a few days, and luckily didn’t send them any money.
That’s where you are missing the point. The Dark Web is specifically designed to avoid having anything to do with government interference.
No one is demanding that government raise their kids, drop that nonsense. Selling crack online is illegal. If you don’t think it should be, petition government to change the law, or maybe vote in the next election instead of sitting on your hands? Setting up a dark web marketplace to circumvent the law is not the answer.
Silk Road wasn’t facilitating illegal drug traffic. Shutting it down simply moved the traffic to another dark web site.
Nothing was accomplished by shutting down the site and sending Ulbricht to jail. Trump did the right thing to correct an egregious government overreach.
Of course it was. Maybe you don’t know what facilitate means? The first definition is “make something easier.” Look it up.
This is such a garbage argument. Jailing murderers doesn’t stop murders, so what’s the point? You can argue that the sentence was too harsh and therefore Trump did the right thing, but the rest of your point is nonsense.
That’s amazing.
