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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
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”