Silk Road, Online Freedom, and Why the Prosecution of Ross Ulbricht Should Worry Us All

By Reason

“I am fighting for my son,” says Lyn Ulbricht, the mother of 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, who faces life in prison as the alleged creator and operator of “Silk Road,” an illicit online marketplace that was shut down by the feds last year. “But [this fight] is bigger than Ross, and I think one website is far less dangerous than the government trampling on our rule of law and the constitution.”

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