Silk Road forums
Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: gman00 on October 18, 2012, 06:11 pm
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Does anybody think it would be a good idea for silkroad to become more private.... as in you need to be invited to join the site by somebody already on it, as this would mayebe stopp scamming and stop the noobs fucking things up, getting caught and what not as silkroad has been getting more and more attention... this could be stupid lol but it was just an idea ;)
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Absolutely not, privatizing silk road goes against everything it stands for. This is a revolution not a super secret drug club.
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It's really far to late at this point anyways. I mean if the US government wanted SR they would have it. It wont be shut down until people start dieing and the media reports on it. I'm sure the feds like SR keeps a lot of drug violence off the streets.
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...and there would quickly be a shortage of vendors and buyers, driving competition down
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Take a look at the suggestions forum. This idea gets suggested AT LEAST once a week. It's not going to happen.
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It would be less safe if it were more private.
Everything about SR is designed to work little or no trust required. Even TOR is fully open source, closed source would be riskier.
Think about it this way: Anything invitation only requires trust. As soon as your system depends on trust LE will develop a plan to gain that trust and infiltrate the group.
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It's really far to late at this point anyways. I mean if the US government wanted SR they would have it. It wont be shut down until people start dieing and the media reports on it. I'm sure the feds like SR keeps a lot of drug violence off the streets.
I second that the genie is out of the bottle.
The US government is kind of weird when it comes to drugs in some ways. I mean privacy laws in regard to packages are respected more than say a place like Australia. Generally if you are a working productive US citizen and you mail order from vendors on SR by in large you are "a" ok. This could always change at some point in the future especially, if some crazy media attention happened in regard to SR.
We also have that whole war on drugs thing. But we also have a nation that was founded on the principle of the pursuit of happiness. Which logically would extend to ones chemical happiness brought on by intoxicating substances. Kind of hypocritical to say the least welcome to the good old US of A where everyone is a hypocrite anyway so I guess it all makes since in the end...
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Bad idea. Silk Road is pretty damn good just like it is. Not perfect, but pretty damn good.
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Not in my opinion. Less people = less sales = less money = less profit. Everyone says this after they get here, but how would they have got here if it was private?
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Not in my opinion. Less people = less sales = less money = less profit. Everyone says this after they get here, but how would they have got here if it was private?
I agree, and to add to that the customers would suffer as well, more venders=more product=more competition=better prices
I don't think SR was meant to be private, DPR makes that pretty clear in his writings, and as someone said in this thread "its a revolution not a private drug club"
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I got here from a friend who told me about this, i was fucking amazed but that was ages ago lol yeah i can see my idea being bad now especially after reading other peoples posts here, lol it was just a suggestion i thought of, while i was getting waasted lol ;) gman00
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Everyone says this after they get here, but how would they have got here if it was private?
:)