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Message from Ross Ulbricht (Founder and operator of the Silk Road)
twitter ^ | Sep 30 | Ross Ulbricht

Posted on 09/30/2022 4:14:19 PM PDT by RandFan

@RealRossU

Tomorrow I’ll begin my 10th year in prison.

I don’t know what to say. I screwed up. I ruined my life and caused a lot of pain. When I look back and see my many mistakes, I feel immense regret.

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: baltimore; baltimorefbi; bitcoin; cybersecurity; darkweb; dreadpirateroberts; rossulbricht; sanfrancisco; silkroad; ulbricht
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1 posted on 09/30/2022 4:14:19 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
"It's all fun and games until somedbody shoots their eye out."
2 posted on 09/30/2022 4:24:51 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: RandFan

Silk Road was a dark website that sold drugs and other illegal things. He was sentenced to 2 life terms plus 40 years.


3 posted on 09/30/2022 4:27:08 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: RandFan
I ruined my life and caused a lot of pain

I think I would be a bit more impressed if he expanded on this sentence quite a bit.

4 posted on 09/30/2022 4:29:16 PM PDT by BRL
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To: Robert DeLong

Harsh sentence


5 posted on 09/30/2022 4:30:32 PM PDT by RandFan (For some reason I'm interested in politics, particularly the U.S. Senate)
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To: RandFan

Yeah, he appealed it all the way up to the Supreme Court and lost all appeals along the way.


6 posted on 09/30/2022 4:36:15 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Last 40 years will be a drag


7 posted on 09/30/2022 4:36:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: RandFan

If I am not mistaken slaves and kids were sold on this site?

Murders for hire?

Now I am not sure if he tried to stop it but the idea behind Silk Road was, anything goes, as I understand it.

Open to correction.


8 posted on 09/30/2022 4:38:03 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: RandFan

I saw his mom trying to promote his release at FreedomFest in July. She seems to understand it’s a long shot.


9 posted on 09/30/2022 4:50:49 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: RandFan
Supposedly, Donald Trump thought about commuting his sentence, but obviously ended up not doing so.
10 posted on 09/30/2022 5:04:25 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: RandFan

I had sympathy for him until I read he hired a hitman to kill someone.


11 posted on 09/30/2022 5:05:01 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: RandFan

Ross forgot to cut the deep state into his business. If he had, he’d probably be a US senator.

The weenie deep state soi bois fear men with rifles, not people who start businesses.


12 posted on 09/30/2022 5:09:13 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: libh8er

That was never proven only insinuated and he denies it


13 posted on 09/30/2022 5:16:13 PM PDT by RandFan (For some reason I'm interested in politics, particularly the U.S. Senate)
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To: libh8er

I often wonder if he really did that or not. People actually kill people and get much much lighter sentences as well.


14 posted on 09/30/2022 5:17:56 PM PDT by russdawg
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To: Trump20162020

He could still do so at some point.

This is exactly what the presidential patronage is for to correct a harsh sentence like this.

It’s his only hope as the courts aren’t interested.


15 posted on 09/30/2022 5:17:58 PM PDT by RandFan (For some reason I'm interested in politics, particularly the U.S. Senate)
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To: libh8er
He hired hitmen or someone posing as hitmen, and paid them big money in bitcoin to murder not only someone he thought had double-crossed him, but all the unrelated persons living in the same house.

A real sociopath.

16 posted on 09/30/2022 5:18:25 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: RandFan

How does this inmate have access to a Twitter account?


17 posted on 09/30/2022 5:21:03 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: RandFan

Ross Ulbricht did nothing wrong.


18 posted on 09/30/2022 5:23:13 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: T Ruth

Don’t all inmates at federal max security prisons have Tweater?


19 posted on 09/30/2022 5:24:43 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: RandFan

When you sell death…..


20 posted on 09/30/2022 5:25:23 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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