A former employee of the defunct black market Atlantis reflects on the demise of Silk Road. He details that the rush to replace the number one deep web market is well underway, and he notes it's not all driven by the money to be made:
What [is] striking to me as an outside observer is there seems to be no shortage of well educated American males in their late 20′s (Manning/Snowden and now Ulbricht) willing to sacrifice bright futures and their own personal liberty to highlight the draconian laws and downright totalitarianism being inflicted by their government on the populace[.]
There are two kinds of outlaws that are most difficult to deter: nihilists in it for the lulz, and idealists. The Joker and V. For millennials, these seem to be two sides of the same coin.