Practically every mainstream piece of reporting on SR has got something in their articles completely wrong or suffers from a lack of perspective, mostly due to the fact they need to lurk moar. Eily does quite well since she's embedded here and so has the insider perspective.If you want to read some stuff about Silk Road that isn't either blandly uninformative or misreporting, then I recommend you read these:--1. Patrick ONeill has a fantastic piece on the history of SR. Clearly he has read the forums closely.http://weirderweb.com/2013/01/01/a-history-of-silk-road-the-nets-largest-hidden-service-and-drug-marketplace-weirder-web-8/2. Gwern has a brilliant analytical mind in general, here he applies it to SR:http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road3. Eileen Ormsby is always the first to get the scoop before the rumor bird hatches. http://allthingsvice.com/4. Alan Greenberg, despite Pine's merciless critique of his PGP key export skills*, is one of the people who "gets it".http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/08/06/black-market-drug-site-silk-road-booming-22-million-in-annual-mostly-illegal-sales/Overall I am disappointed in the British press. I have not yet seen a single article that either comprehends the link between between cypherpunks, anarchocapitalism and the Silk Road, or indeed any article that understands the wider picture in relation to the Drug War. In fact one of the most accurate pieces on the Silk Road was a Daily Mail piece a while back, which is a bit like saying USA Today got the drop on the New York Times.I am also a bit disappointed in the financial press such as the Financial Times, the Economist and Wall Street Journal. None of them seem to have picked up on the cryptocurrency angle and explored it in any great depth. It has all been extremely precursory.I think lots of people at those institutions are interested in SR, are interested in cryptocurrency, but they are hobbled some degree of inhibition that comes with habitual self censorship.They, prompted by exposure to law enforcement, are being encouraged to think of SR as "just another website selling drugs", like the reports of IOPs selling counterfeits, when all evidence points to something much... stranger going on.And for the record: Darknet != Dark Web != Deep Web. They all have different connotations.* Use the
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