Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced to life in prison

Posted by vierja on Friday May 29, 2015 @04:04PM
from the theverge.com dept.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/29/8687583/prison-sentence-ross-ulbricht-guilty-silk-road-dread-pirate-roberts

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Re:Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced to lif... by socalnate1 on Friday May 29, 2015 @04:17PM (#9627020)

Doesn't this seem unnecessarily harsh for what he did?

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Re:Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced to lif... by larryfreeman on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:25PM (#9630880)

I am shocked by the verdict. I just read it. According to CNN, the judge made him responsible for charges that were dropped (paying to have people killed). In theory, he is responsible for everyone harmed by the infrastructure that he created even if he was not directly responsible in the harms.

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