Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, argued the government overreached in building its case against Ross Ulbricht and the dark web marketplace Silk Road.

"Silk Road has emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet today," FBI agent Christopher Tarbell said in a criminal complaint lodged by the agency in 2013. The ...

the internet. Ulbricht, a 40-year-old native of ... In 2011, Ulbricht—who used the moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts”—founded Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce site on the Tor network that ...

In its nearly three years of existence, Silk Road, which operated in a shady corner of the internet known as the dark web, became an international drug marketplace, facilitating more than 1.5 ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web ... marketplace on the Internet today,” had been serving ...

it emerged as what prosecutors described as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet.The vast majority of items for sale on Silk Road were controlled substances ...

Starlink is not the only satellite internet service provider eyeing the Pakistani market. One other company awaiting approval is China’s Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology. Pakistan said the ...

What happened next? This piece first ran in March 2021 for the release of the film Silk Road, chronicling Ross Ulbricht’s life and arrest. Ulbricht, who was serving two life sentences in prison ...

In a move that has sparked heated debates across the nation, former President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of the infamous Silk Road website, on January ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for ...

President Trump said he granted the full pardon in honor of Ross Ulbricht's mother "and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly." ...