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There was a category for drugs. And specific subcategories for different specific kinds of drugs.

Unlike, say, the phone network or your neighborhood street corner it was pretty unambiguously designed to sell drugs (and more)

Apart from any sort of judgement we might want to make, facts are facts and Silk Road was factually designed to sell drugs.

You don't get to participate in the discussion until you acknowledge basic reality.



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