“The seized drug was used in rave parties in Delhi and adjoining states,” the article says. One of the two arrested was caught with “100 pills (42g) of ecstasy,” who happens to be “a DJ by profession.” The other person arrested had roughly half that amount.
The article seems confused at the rather basic point that Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is synonymous for ecstasy.
The unnamed dark website allows for “all variants of drugs like cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, ecstasy, LSD, oxycodone, hydrocodone, psilocybin, xanax and ketamine [to] be purchased,” the article lists.
Daily Mail explains, “payment was made in virtual currency, ie, Bitcoin. To facilitate the transaction, there are sites where rupees can be converted to the equivalent amount of Bitcoins through which payments can be made to buy drugs,” or shoes or an iPhone, the article omits.
The word ”Bitcoin” is peppered about one dozen times in a six hundred word post in the news outlet, netting a percentage (.02) bordering on a pretty slick attempt to hypnotize readers into suspecting such a noun is at least complicit in illegal activity. At no time does the piece balance its prose with a sobering sentence about plenty of illegal activity being facilitated by the country’s fiat paper. And maybe that’s the article’s unstated purpose.
“The seized drug was used in rave parties in Delhi and adjoining states,” the article says. One of the two arrested was caught with “100 pills (42g) of ecstasy,” who happens to be “a DJ by profession.” The other person arrested had roughly half that amount.
The article seems confused at the rather basic point that Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is synonymous for ecstasy.
The unnamed dark website allows for “all variants of drugs like cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, ecstasy, LSD, oxycodone, hydrocodone, psilocybin, xanax and ketamine [to] be purchased,” the article lists.
Daily Mail explains, “payment was made in virtual currency, ie, Bitcoin. To facilitate the transaction, there are sites where rupees can be converted to the equivalent amount of Bitcoins through which payments can be made to buy drugs,” or shoes or an iPhone, the article omits.
The word ”Bitcoin” is peppered about one dozen times in a six hundred word post in the news outlet, netting a percentage (.02) bordering on a pretty slick attempt to hypnotize readers into suspecting such a noun is at least complicit in illegal activity. At no time does the piece balance its prose with a sobering sentence about plenty of illegal activity being facilitated by the country’s fiat paper. And maybe that’s the article’s unstated purpose.
What do you think of such coverage? Is it fair to cover bitcoin in this manner? Tell us in the comments below!
Source: www.news.bitcoin.com/india-drug-cartel-uses-bitcoin
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