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"There's no way Silk Road could be reasonably expected to reduce violence," Federal District Court Judge Katherine Forrest said at the recent sentencing hearing for Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of the Silk Road online drug market.
Going into sentencing, Ulbricht's legal team had argued that Silk Road, andother drug markets like it, had actually reduced the violence and harms associated with the drug trade. Much of the violence associated with the drug trade happens due to street-level dealers fighting over turf. But if people are buying online, there's no turf to fight over -- "with Silk Road functioning to considerable degree at the wholesale/broker market level, its virtual location should reduce violence, intimidation and territorialism," researchers at the University of Manchester and the University of Montreal concluded in a paper last year.
Most online drug markets also let buyers rate products and sellers, similar to eBay and Amazon. This...
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