The Silk Road Analysis

Freedom is an interesting concept. People tend to claim (in the United States especially) that we are free, but unfortunately, we are often blindly fooled into believing we have more rights than we truly do. Depending on one’s view of what the word free actually means, one could say that society really isn’t free at all. Dread Pirate Roberts—abbreviated as DPR—believed that society is actually allocated very little freedom; to restitute this, he created the Silk Road. Naturally, considering DPR’s very liberal view of freedom, he viewed drug laws as very dictatorial and arbitrary, so he did something about it. DPR founded the first modern darknet-market, the Silk Road, where one could sell and purchase illegal drugs, yet remain completely anonymous. Essentially, Roberts believed that since purchasing and using drugs was the decision of an individual, it fell under the individual’s freedoms to do so. Roberts managed the site with strict control and a complex management system. Really, the site was working perfectly, until it started growing. Normally, growth is great for business, but when it is necessary to keep operations secret, it often provokes even more complications. As with every business, the Silk Road had various enemies: the FBI, the DEA, and …show more content…
Again, Dread Pirate Roberts was extremely skilled at concealing his own information; the real issue was when underlings got caught for their own mistakes. Law enforcement took advantage of apprehended individuals by offering immunity or reduced sentences for the exposure of information regarding the Silk Road’s inner workings. DPR’s cautiousness and suspicion pressured the more drastic solution, hiring trusted members of the Silk Road to execute informers in order to protect his own site and privacy. Assassinations like this were what caused DPR to become more lenient toward skirting the law and taking more