Hacker Ethics: Learning Lessons from Darknet Marketplaces
Hacker Ethics: Learning Lessons from Darknet Marketplaces
The rise of darknet marketplaces (DNMs) illustrates the systemic failings of drug war enforcement. From the perspective of the hackers behind this technology, they have, in the last decade, marked a new frontier in undermining prohibitionist efforts to restrict the availability of illegal drugs. To be clear, the unregulated free market model these websites represent has little to do with Transform’s vision of legal regulation. Nevertheless, darknet users have undeniably pioneered - deliberately or not - models of harm reduction, which may offer useful lessons as we plot the course into a post-prohibitionist world. (Transform UK, 30.08.2022)
https://transformdrugs.org/blog/hacker-ethics-learning-lessons-from-darknet-marketplaces