[Mycroft Holmes]

The article is worth the read. Ulbricht admits to writing the software years ago but does not appear to have profited by it.

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[American in Israel]

Railroading that boy. Looks like the real criminal bought judges with his ill gotten gains. Not much justice with those who bear the title these days.

[Celtic Conservative]

This is the guy accused of writing the software for “silk road” or running the site itself?

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[palmer]

t later transpired that two federal agents who had infiltrated the Silk Road had high-level access to the site and could have manipulated data and messages. They had been arrested for allegedly stealing funds from the site. Yet the judge ruled that there could be no mention of the agents or their arrests.

Wonder if they are spending life in prison also?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Moms...Gotta love’em

[IronJack]

Idylistic? You mean someone who tends to write pastoral novels? Or do you actually mean “idealistic” — motivated by lofty sentiments?

[arthurus]

Idylistic? It means something but probably not what the writer intended.

[gaijin]

Gave him life in prison and also ordered Reason magazine to never talk about the case which was finished, but also never to reveal that there was a gag order on them at all...????

That sounds like something that would be done by Russia, China or lran.

[FreedomStar3028]

All he did was write the code, and was at least a moderator on the dark website. If not the admin.

Having not profited on it and not taking part in the traffic of the site they threw him in jail for life. Always drug offenders too, it’s always drug offenders who get the harsh sentences. Could it be that people with power and money benefit from the illegal drug industry and can pay of the US gov? Or perhaps they are PART of the US gov.

Even if he did take part in it and was a huge drug kingpin.....life??????? really? Not by any max sentence out there.