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Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life (and Death) in Prison

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“When you couple the eBay-style reputation engine with the relative anonymity of a black market, you get what we might call a ‘gray market.’ And that gray market allowed those determined to buy certain items — illegal drugs, etc. — to do so in a far, far safer way than ever before.  Silk Road and dark websites like it remove commercial activity from the hands of violent cartels fighting over territory, from the gangland districts of US cities, and from dodgy dealings behind shady buildings.  Second, in a pragmatic sense, the apprehension and sentencing of Ulbricht has not deterred these grey market entrepreneurs.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/ross-ulbricht-fool-martyr-or-trailblazer

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Jeffrey Tucker: The Deeply Tragic Life Sentencing of Ross Ulbricht

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“If you are a tenured professor performing artificial trading experiments in a classroom and publishing your results in expensive journals, you are toasted as a genius and sometimes given prestigious prizes. If you innovate with venture capital funding and the backing of large tech firms, you are rewarded with riches and fame. But if you are a quiet geek who creates a more realistic experiment online, one that actually benefits humanity, and never sought funding from any establishment source, you are swept up in a sting operation and imprisoned for life.  As for the online markets themselves, the jailing of Ross does nothing to stop them. They are now larger than ever.”

https://tucker.liberty.me/the-deeply-tragic-jailing-of-ross-ulbricht/

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Can Freedom-Loving Czechs Build a New Nation on the Danube?

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“Tired of high taxes, meddling bureaucrats, and the military-industrial complex? Consider moving to the world’s newest (sort of) country, Liberland.  A Czech man named Vit Jedlicka proclaimed the new republic between Serbia and Croatia on the western bank of the Danube on Monday. With a land area of about 2.7 square miles, Liberland would be the world’s third-smallest country, after the Vatican City and Monaco. According to its website, it has a flag, a motto (‘to live and let live’), and an official language (Czech, which seems ill-advised). Jedlicka is taking applications for citizenship, though you’ll have to apply by email because there’s no post office yet.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/16/liberland_czech_libertarian_declares_new_nation_on_border_of_serbia_and.html

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101 Reasons: Liberty Lives in New Hampshire (Full Length Film)

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“‘101 Reasons: Liberty Lives in New Hampshire’ is a documentary adaptation of the Free State Project’s list of 101 Reasons to Move to New Hampshire, which was written in 2002 by Michele Dumas. The FSP is an effort to move 20,000 liberty-minded people to a low populated state that has an existing pro-freedom culture. In 2003, participants of the FSP voted for the ‘Live Free or Die’ state, New Hampshire, as its destination. For over 12 years the 101 Reasons list has helped inspire thousands of activists and entrepreneurs to sign up for the FSP and continue New Hampshire’s reputation as a beacon for liberty.”

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Feds Seize Silk Road 2 in Major Dark Web Drug Bust

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“On Thursday international law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and Europol took down the Silk Road 2 and arrested its alleged operator 26-year-old Blake Benthall in San Francisco. The criminal complaint against Benthall outlines how the Silk Road 2’s staff was infiltrated by at least one undercover law enforcement agent even before the site went online in November of last year. In May of this year, the FBI somehow pinpointed the foreign server that ran the Silk Road 2 despite its use of the anonymity software Tor to protect its location, and obtained records from the server’s hosting provider identifying Benthall.”

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/feds-seize-silk-road-2/

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Live Like You’re Free

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“You have been born into a time when you can communicate with thousands of people in an instant, people who share your interests and concerns. You can leave town for the weekend and see things daily that your ancestors could not possibly have imagined. Your job is almost certainly less physically taxing than any job any person who lived prior ever had. Statistically, you are likely to live longer and better than anyone born before you. Entrepreneurs are busy creating and popularizing some of the first tools in history that are more useful for undermining coercion than for furthering it. Freedom is expanding daily in ways our predecessors could hardly have dreamed.”

http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/live-like-youre-free

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Can Free Zones in the Middle of the Jungle Save the Developing World?

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“Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. It has the highest murder rate in the world by double. It’s a place ravaged by the illegal drug trade and political instability. As recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order to extend his own term. It may seem like the last place on earth where businesses would want to invest, or where people would want to move.   But there’s a new idea about to be tried in Honduras.  Some call it a Startup City or Free City, others a LEAP Zone, and in Honduran law it’s known as a ZEDE. They are politically autonomous, privately run zones that supporters believe could transform the entire developing world.”

http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/21/can-free-zones-in-the-middle-of-the-jung

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He built his own toll road: solving problems the State’s too useless to fix

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“Faced with months of roadworks and upheaval, and the loss of business at the party supplies shop he runs with his wife Wendy in Bath, the pioneering 52-year-old rented a nearby field and built an alternative road to allow traffic to bypass the closure, charging drivers £2 each way.  He spent £150,000 on the gravel track next to the A431 in Kelston and says he will probably spend that again to maintain it.   Of course, the council has been quick to question his efforts, citing that mealy-mouthed old staple — health and safety.  Rather than thanking him, they’ve subjected Mr Watts to all sorts of snooty checks and inspections. Well, they must be furious. They have been utterly humiliated by him.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716156/A-hero-time-Inspired-man-built-toll-road-Hes-one-countless-Britons-rising-solve-problems-States-useless-fix.html

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Private Cities 101

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“Proprietary communities offer people a way to get rich by providing public goods. Public goods affect the value of the land on which they are provided. A classic example is schools. Good schools can increase land value by thousands—if not tens of thousands—of dollars. Similarly, police, roads, parks, and sanitation tend to raise land values. Because a proprietor or developer’s income depends on the value of the land he is renting out, he has incentives to provide public goods as part of his total offering.  The two closest examples of proprietary cities are Letchworth and Welwyn, small cities founded by Ebenezer Howard on Georgist principles before being nationalized after World War II.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/private-cities-101

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Alleged Silk Road Founder’s Mother: No Murder-For-Hire Charge

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“In this video Luke Rudkowski has an emotional conversation with the mother of Ross Ulbricht, alleged Silk Road’s founder who is currently in prison. This particular case is very unique and we are witnessing our legal system adapt to the evolution of the internet. For more information on this historical case and the legal defense fund please visit FreeRoss.org”

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