> Yes, reform the legal system sensibly. No, we don't let drug kingpins who have built up a serious crime organisation walk.
He ran a website. I don't call that a kingpin
He ran a website. I don't call that a kingpin
He created a market place which was available as a tor hidden service. It was primarily a website and a communications hub, this makes it a kind of meta-criminal enterprise where he enabled other criminals to sell often illegal drugs, though there was apparently much more.
The stated political goal at the time with using a website was to reduce violence at the time of a transaction. By that alone it was clearly more than a website.