Hacker Cinema
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
2017 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Emily James, Mark Lewis
Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectual operating under the avatar The Dread Pirate Roberts. Promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road became a million-dollar digital drugs cartel.
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I do not know Ross Ulbricht, and apart from having followed news reports about his case, and having watched a documentary shown on the BBC (Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web), my opinions matter as little as those of others not privvy to evidence presented in court hearings.
Bright chap, but misguided, might be a view that I'd be happy to defend.
I would not, though, want to leap on to an uninformed bandwagon with respect to his alleged conspiracy to murder, or with respect to any campaign for presidential pardon.
Old-fashioned as I am, I would prefer any such deliberations and rulings to be the domain of the judiciary and legal systems, rather than of random public opinion.