It is very liberal though. Silk Road will consist probably mostly of Liberals with Libertarians a significant minority. Liberals are pro gun control and pro wealth redistribution, but socially they are like a less extreme form of libertarianism. They support gay marriage being legalized and are less concerned about teenage sex than conservatives are but more 'worried about the children' than Libertarians are, particularly when they can use this worry to provide jobs to the larger community. They also lean strongly towards at least marijuana being legalized and quite a few of them are for all drugs being legalized. In contrast to Libertarians they want to heavily regulate and tax the legal distribution of marijuana. Most of them who are against legalization are probably mostly worried about the jobs that will be lost if drugs are legalized. At their more extreme end they are the type of people who support the murder of individuals so that they can provide kidneys to the community in order to save two people. However immorally putting the community over the individual is a common trait of liberals despite its degree of expression varying. Liberals can really be split into two camps, liberal-libertarian and liberal-socialist, where the second description is the ideology that compliments their sort of liberalism. Liberal-libertarians are more in favor of relaxing laws that they think have no chance of harming the larger community so they are more individualistic but they will still put the community over the individual in specific cases, gun control being one of them where they see a large threat to the community for an individual right that they see as being needless in a world without civilian access to guns (however the large majority of them are statist enough to think that the government should be well armed), liberal-socialists struggle with a desire to 'help' the most people leading them to being quite controlling of the life of an individual (so not only should guns be banned, but so should drugs because they hurt individuals even if they will not have much of an impact outside of the community at large. However, gay marriage would still be seen as acceptable to them, and so would stem cell research). Libertarians are quite liberal in some ways, generally they believe that the rights of the individual outweigh the needs of the community, this means that their opinion on drug legalization coincides more with liberals than conservatives, however unlike liberals they do not think government has a right to tax people for drugs or to regulate the drug trade. Libertarians are also more relaxed than conservatives regarding teenage sex and are fairly close to liberals in regard to their opinions on this, however they are also generally in favor of legalizing possession of all CP and this differs from liberals who are only in favor of CP possession sentences bringing less time than actually molesting children (which contrasts with conservatives). Liberal-libertarians are against the death sentence, in my experience quite a lot of anarcho libertarians are also against the death sentence but largely for different reasons, primarily a distrust of the government rather than seeing human life as too precious to destroy. So pretty much SR appeals to Liberal-Libertarians and there are a ton more of them than actual Libertarians so they will probably be the largest group on SR. Libertarians are also extremely fond of SR , it resonates even more with their ideology than it does with the ideology of liberals (it is a business, not government regulated, run by an individual, not taxed but paid for as a voluntary service, etc). But libertarians are much rarer than liberals so there will be less of them here but they will still be a much more significant percentage of the people here than they are a percentage of people in the typical population. Conservatives will be the rarest group here, most of them are against drugs and religious, most of them support very strong government regulation of the individual but have little concern for the community either, they are mostly interested in the Rich and corporations. A lot of them seem to be brainwashed, and the fact that they are overwhelmingly religious does show a susceptibility to brainwashing.