calvadev on Nostr: The main reason was probably because of the volume the Silk Road was handling. ...
The main reason was probably because of the volume the Silk Road was handling. Millions, if not billions, of dollars worth of untaxed transactions were flowing over the site, which I'm sure was meaningful to the federal government. The main issue for the government was that it posed a threat to their control of commerce over the internet, and the drugs probably just made it easier to target and gave them a "moral" backing.
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