DNM Vice News article

I love Vice News and thought this was an interesting read. I know it's a common idea to keep this whole thing quiet, but the community comes off pretc well. Vice: DNMs Gentrification of Drug Trade


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[10 Points] supreme_bepis:

holy shit one of these is posted like every day these people write the same dumb ass article over and over again about the darknet but in different words constantly


[10 Points] InfinitelyOutThere:

Get these mothafucking social justice warriors of my mothafucking dnms!


[5 Points] madisonrebel:

But while it eliminates some of the danger, it also cuts out an entire class of people who don't necessarily have the access or technical expertise to deal or make drug purchases online.

That's something that hasn't been looked at, but it's one of the issues with these sites. The war on drugs most heavily impacts poor people and racial minorities and marginalized groups. These are the kinds of groups that wouldn't necessarily have a big presence on cryptomarkets anyway, because to access a cryptomarket you need a bank account, you need a computer, you need a minimum amount of technical proficiency and expertise. You're really talking about more of a middle class kind of drug user than maybe a homeless person who's addicted to crack or heroin. So the kinds of groups that are already using these sites are very much the kinds of groups that are already kind of isolated from the worst effects of the war of drugs. And the people that are selling to these users are still going to be doing that the conventional way, because their customers aren't the ones who are likely to be using these sites.

So the cryptomarket is a bit of a hip, higher-end space?

It's a gentrified market.

Who knew, folks? We're the new 1%.


[1 Points] Magicpurpleponyrider:

Mods tag this shit as breaking bad spoiler :(