cartels

In summation, the government is tightening control on BTC, while largely ignoring larger problems of big banks transacting with drug cartels and terrorists.

Legalizing drugs will only make it easier for companies here to outsource to now legitimate cartels in Mexico.

They are merely taxing the smuggling routes into the US skimming the shipments of Gulf and Sinaloa cartels.

In these cases private ownership just leads to cartels or innovation in marketing departments alone, both rising prices.

What's stopping something like those warlords/cartels now from making drones to make sure everyone is obeying them?

If the cartels can get RPGs from the Mexican military, they can get rifles from them also.

Big banks collude with drug cartels but no one is named criminally, small btc exchange is cited for money laundering.

When it comes to wanting to kill/scare people as the cartels do what is the difference between an AR15 vs.

But to be clear, drug cartels, spy agencies and criminal organizations have been able to do that for quite some time.

Yet you have cartels killing dozens of people on a regular basis.

In many(perhaps most) parts of India, these operate as unions/ price cartels.

These guys are very smart and they know that clear links between US guns and Mexican cartels might mean a political obligation in Washington DC to send resources to fight them further.

Then there are also the "guerrilla hackers", which could be anyone from random hacker groups, to cartels in Mexico to North Korea who doesn't care if you hack back its hundreds of PCs.

We know that in efforts to end drug cartels, the DEA will enter into long term alliances with one cartel to eliminate others.[1] We know the US tolerates the rule of the drug-track caste in Afghanistan for the pursuit of "higher ideals".

If businesses that rely on a walled garden approach (Facebook, a lot of "software as a service", etc) and the paranoid cartels that rely on re-creating scarcity (the {RI,MP}AA, "ebooks", what's left of newspapers) can bypass the DOM and render directly, they will.

Cartels are formed in the shadows, markets are manipulated.