• @[email protected]
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    72 days ago

    Worse; you could buy people from the silk road. Wives, children, nanny’s slaves… Along with military equipment, drugs ofc, stolen goods, and pretty much anything illegal that has a buyer.

    Had a friend that liked buying drugs there, and would send me screenshots of some of the insane ads he found. He was pissed when it got shut down, and moved to a market called ‘Agora’.

    Broke off that friendship quite a while ago and haven’t heard about it since. Not really my scene…

    • @glimse
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      232 days ago

      This isn’t true, there was no category for buying human beings. I don’t even think hitmen were allowed to offer their services.

      Military equipment and stolen goods, absolutely. Hacked accounts, too. But any ad he found was either promptly removed or was never on The Silk Road to begin with.

      Other non-drug markets did exist at the time but I never went on them so I can’t confirm if they were selling slaves.

      • @[email protected]
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        -62 days ago

        I wish I’d have saved some of those images; I can assure you they did exist. I don’t think it was a prominent part of the site, with their main focus on illegal substances/goods, but it was definitely there.

        • @glimse
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          162 days ago

          Someone who definitely wasn’t me often browsed the whole site in awe at what was sold and never saw anything like that

          I’m not saying he didn’t find them, but I am very confident it would have been against the ToS. The admins had a pretty hard line stance on it because it would take the site from “very illegal” to “extremely illegal”

    • @Lowpast
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      222 days ago

      False, no human trafficking, cp, or hitmen services were allowed and were promptly removed, except when Ross him self tried to buy one. Obviously people attempted to hide their sales, just like they do in the clearnet, but the site had a policy against many things.

      • @[email protected]
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        -52 days ago

        Maybe they weren’t permitted/encouraged, and eventually got removed, but you could definitely find them there. I wish I’d saved images; but this was 15years ago.

        • @Lowpast
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          112 days ago

          Yeah and you can find them in the internet too, on telegram, instagram.