The bitcoin drug baron: Mother thought her 'gentle son' was making video games on his laptop...

Daily Mail ^ | 16:01 EST, 20 June 2015 | ANNETTE WITHERIDGE

[Mycroft Holmes]

Ross Ulbricht was jailed for life after he was accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts who ran online black market site But his horrified mother Lyn claims there has been a miscarriage of justice and is fighting for his freedom In a revealing interview she described her 'gentle' son as an idylistic graduate with little money But she says he was branded as a cyber-criminals by a legal system that rode roughshod over natural justice

[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?

[knarf]

All this just goes to show ... and prove .... what we once considered "The US Government" no longer exists

It has been replaced (and rapidly expanding) by an elitist SS type of 'soldier' that will do the bidding of the commanders giving orders

We are no longer on planet earth

Bizarro World

[Mycroft Holmes]

The article seems to indicate that he is being charged with running the site as he freely admits to writing it. I have written similar things in the past so I am more than slightly interested.

Chow for paragraph eater.

I will admit I lived in fear for many years over code I wrote for a balloon angioplasty device. 4 bit NEC processor written entirely in assembly on contract. Brrr.

[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?

[Mycroft Holmes]

That was copied and pasted, I’m not responsible for the spelling in the Daily Mail.

[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.

[justlurking]

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...????

No, Reason was ordered to provide identifying information for 6 people that posted comments on their website to an article about the case.

They were belatedly ordered to not reveal the order to the targets of the investigate, but not until after they had already done so.

An extensive article about it:

How Government Stifled Reason's Free Speech