{"id":77788,"date":"2024-09-02T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=77788"},"modified":"2024-09-02T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:25:10","slug":"another-pathetic-example-of-anarcho-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/another-pathetic-example-of-anarcho-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Pathetic Example of Anarcho-Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70658 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gov.jpg 680w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gov-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"hestia-title entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/areaocho.com\/how-the-feds-put-their-thumb-on-the-scale\/\">How the Feds Put Their Thumb On The Scale<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Ed and Brian Krassenstein\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/feds-seized-a-fortune-from-resistance-icons-accused-of-boosting-online-ponzi-schemes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/feds-seized-a-fortune-from-resistance-icons-accused-of-boosting-online-ponzi-schemes\">were making money from Ponzi schemes and illegal porn sites<\/a>. One of the web addresses that they owned was 17onlygirls (dot) com. They were domain name squatters who specialized in web addresses that promoted child porn and illegal Ponzi schemes. Ponzi fraud type sites were also a part of their business. They ran investment forums TalkGold and MoneyMakerGroup until the Department of Justice accused them of profiting from Ponzi scheme promoters through the sites. They owned tens of thousands of web domains, which they sold to the highest bidder while pretending not to know that the domains would be used for.<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Screenshots of his messages from 2007 appear to show him negotiating over buying three addresses: TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com, and TeenPorn101.com.<\/h2>\n<h2>There is no suggestion that the Krassensteins ran porn sites themselves. But by buying porn site domains, they stood to gain from selling or leasing those addresses.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>They were being investigated by the FBI. A civil asset forfeiture was filed against them. Federal agents raided their homes and seized almost half a million dollars from the brothers in 2017,<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/379699705\/Complaint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0obtained from selling ads for Ponzi schemes on investment web forums that they ran<\/a>. They entered a plea agreement to forfeit the some of the profits and avoid jail.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/areaocho.com\/how-the-feds-put-their-thumb-on-the-scale\/\">RTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69097 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts.jpg 636w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Govts-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Feds Put Their Thumb On The Scale &nbsp; Ed and Brian Krassenstein\u00a0were making money from Ponzi schemes and illegal porn sites. One of the web addresses that they owned was 17onlygirls (dot) com. They were domain name squatters who specialized in web addresses that promoted child porn and illegal Ponzi schemes. Ponzi fraud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17631,16280,13,473,74,5594,17107,1635,3553,3986,14158,5729,5770],"tags":[16416,8490,7806,17195,7064],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77791,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77788\/revisions\/77791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}