Assassination Politics - Harpers article

[John Newman]

On January 15, 2020 8:34:10 PM UTC, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
>I heard something on NPR in the car, part of their "This is Think"
>series, about an article on Harpers about ... Assassination Politics! 
>
>The NPR story referenced Jim Bell and cypherpunks a bunch of times, and
>rehashed a bunch of shit that is in the article (which I wasn't
>familiar with).  It also talked about scammers with fake AP markets.
>One of the things that struck me is that it seems most (none) of the
>intended victims were *not* being killed for being part of the
>government or being cops or anything remotely as Jim has idealized it.
>They were people being targeted for the same old stupid reasons idiots
>are always killing each other: unrequited love, jealousy, rage, etc.
>
>Link below:
>
>
>https://harpers.org/blog/2019/12/click-here-to-kill-online-murder-markets-dark-web/
>


Seems the correct link for the story is -


https://harpers.org/archive/2020/01/click-here-to-kill-dark-web-hitman/


Although it was easily found from the first link I sent ;)


 
>Couldn't find the NPR bit online, I imagine it will show up here in the
>next day or so (it seems to be a couple days behind):
>
>https://www.npr.org/podcasts/478859728/think
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