Have we let certain vendors and markets become DNM equalivents of CEO's and conglomorates like Wal-Mart and Whole-Foods? Allowing them to spread propaganda and slander merely for personal gain and self interest. It was always the job of the community to keep these types of people in check. We are the sentinals of our own personal freedoms and individual choices. It was why the movement started in the first place. There is always a risk of losing that power to self appointed "authorities" and requires nothing more than a lack of effort by the population. We wanted to be the epitome of personal freedoms, but are we really any better than corrupt cops and street corner dealers and back alley drug users?
Who remembers when the DNM's started and we all knew we were part of a movement? Have we become complacent and resorted to the behaviour of a group of drunk friday night frat boys? When this all started everyone shared an ideoligy that unregulated trade and free markets could work because we wanted it to. We had eachothers backs and understood that if one of us failed, we all did. Now, it would seem that there's not a lot of room for Ulbricht's anarcho-capitalist utopian vision in everybody's back pocket, what with all the money they'd rather stuff down there.
The biggest threat this community faces is itself I think. BBMC/Redbook is a good example of the damaging lengths some people among us will go through for whatever nefarious purpose. https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/5drqdx/this_is_my_way_of_telling_you_all_that_i_love_you/db9o1ot/ If you don't think that tied some things together for LE, think again. It was users in our community figuring out his writing style, tieing together accounts from different forums, his doxx, and snitching to youtube (and maybe his local PD). Those members even provided pics of him, just ask around, they'll show you(cop or not). We are supposed to be working together towards a common goal and liberate ourselves from the tyranny of LE, and we got angry "reddit detectives" helping them bust us then carrying on like they were one of us.
It's not the only time this has happened around here either. Why would someone help the cops connect the dots? Those types of people are harmful to this community and the movement as a whole. With that type of shit going on around here the fucking feds need to do little legwork because vindictive, malicious and spiteful people will do it for them. The Reddit Junior Fed Squad will connect the dots, package it and deliver to HQ personally. These are usually the first ones to call someone else a fed. Have sabateurs infultrated this community? Is anyone out there making a stand against it?
They gave him life in prison for thinking people could be free. They slander his name and accuse him of crimes he did not commit to make him into a monster. If we are the gatekeepers of Ross' vision, have we done right by him? Are we proving to the world that free and unregulated trade can work? Are we showing ourselves and everyone else that drug users can be resposible and do not require government intervention? Are we fighting to make sure no one else has to suffer his fate? Where are all my Revolutionaries at?!
If you know this to happen to other users, you shouldn't taunt people to dox you. It's not a good look to be on this subreddit saying, "dox me, faggot." Someone just might do it.
If you're about working together as one cohesive unit to acheieve the same common goal, you shouldn't spread FUD by accusing users of knowing who they are. Just because people disagree/do not like you does not mean we're all Minerva.
This is the most hypocritical post, but I don't expect anything less from you.
TL;DR: save the sanctimonious lecture for yourself.