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I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.

Digital edition. Digital. Redhanded goes digital. Yeah, we've been analogue this all time.

Yeah, it's a it's a very techy one. Yeah.

Yeah, I've actually wanted to do it for ages. Yeah, because I watched the documentary about it years ago.

And I meant to rewatch it last night, but I didn't. I watched 90th of you all see instead. Yeah, because I forgot.

I watched my Australia. Oh, the new one. The new one. So I actually didn't do a rewatch.

But that's okay, because I think I watched that documentary about six times. Yeah, we got it.

We got it. And we're going to do it now. So pay attention digitally.

On the first of June 2011, Adrian Chen, a writer for Gorker, published an article titled

The Underground Website where you can buy any drug imaginable. The article was of course

referring to the Silk Road. And as the title suggested, it was indeed a website hidden on the

dark web where you could buy pretty much any drug you wanted anonymously. This article caused

a media firestorm. The concept of an online drug bizarre was enough to catch the eye of almost

every publication on the planet. And for the likes of Fox News, it was confirmation that the world

had fully gone to the dogs. As things often do when Fox News get involved, Silk Road quickly became

a political issue. However, it would take the DEA, Homeland Security and the FBI two years

to shut down the anonymous online drug market. The high profile court case that followed for some

was a victory. For others, it was a miscarriage of justice that set an alarming precedent for

people's right to privacy. But before we get to all that, we need to talk about what the Silk

Road actually was, how it worked, and why it was so goddamn successful. Apart from the fact

that people love drugs. If we've learned one thing on this show, it is that humans are flawed

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