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

This story was originally released on November 26, 2014.
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“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
consitution.”

Ulbricht sat down with Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie to talk about
why she believes the government’s case against Ross broadly
violates his constitutional rights and threatens online
freedom.

For more on Ross Ulbricht and the government’s case against Silk
Road, read Brian Doherty’s feature story in the December
2014 issue of Reason magazine, “How Buying Drugs Online Became Safe, Easy, and
Boring.”

Shot and edited by Jim Epstein; additional camera Anthony L.
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