Silk Road 2.0, a hidden website that allegedly allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs, has been closed down by authorities and_one person has been arrested in connection with the running of the service, according to the FBI. The closure comes almost exactly one year after the original Silk Road suffered the same fate. “As alleged, Blake Benthall attempted to resurrect Silk Road, a secret website that law enforcement seized last year, by running Silk Road 2.0, a nearly identical criminal enterprise,” Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said. “Let’s be clear—this Silk Road, in whatever form, is the road...

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