What brings a young, privileged man to a point where he is facilitating the sale of lethal weapons? Is Ulbricht’s life sentence - his appeal was denied in May - a fair penalty for his crimes? And do the rise and fall of the Silk Road hold lessons about the way business is done in Silicon Valley?įor this installment of the Undark Five, I asked him about those and other questions. The book reads like a thriller, but it raises a host of larger questions.
(As it happens, Bilton lived in San Francisco and used to walk his dog past the library where Ulbricht was caught.)
Ulbricht’s story is the subject of a new book, “American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road,” by Nick Bilton, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and a former columnist for The New York Times. Nick Bilton, author of “American Kingpin”: “Every time a new thing happens with technology, it’s here forever.”Īt the ripe age of 26, Ross Ulbricht, a libertarian and self-taught coder, had singlehandedly developed what became the Silk Road, a “dark web” marketplace for drugs, along with guns, hacking tools, and even poison, that generated $1.2 billion in revenue. Yes, he deserves punishment then the law(s) folks were then aware that if you do this THEN the punishment(s) and/or fine(s) and/or mail time be…it’s all ass backwards. We have all heard the situation where someone says, “if it were me that Got caught they’d put me in jail & would make me the example”….BUT this case doesn’t fit the punishment!! I’m confused but most of all very truly scared that our so called justice system can get away this “draconian” laws.
How can our court system charge him when there wasn’t any laws to begin with? Evidence not brought forth for his defense with the FBI informant & SS Agent that both were stealing? Anyways, the questions are still unanswered or better yet, make no sense and I don’t consider myself very smart in computer technologies ect. Just read this article today and I am just speechless which, is unusually uncharacteristic however, I feel really bad for Ross Ulbricht and that he totally got railroaded.
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