{"id":36303,"date":"2021-02-11T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36303"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:40:46","slug":"elon-musk-says-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbrichts-sentence-is-excessive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/elon-musk-says-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbrichts-sentence-is-excessive\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht&#8217;s sentence is excessive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said that Silk Road&#8217;s founder Ross Ulbricht received a sentence that was too harsh.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He definitely has issues, but the sentencing seems a bit high<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1359517638653857794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the entrepreneur, the reasons for punishment definitely existed, but the sentence seems excessive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QmoWUcqtDJ\">\n<p>The Silk Road story: how Bitcoin elevated the darknet economy to a new level<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c\u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f Silk Road: \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d \u0432\u044b\u0432\u0435\u043b \u0434\u0430\u0440\u043a\u043d\u0435\u0442-\u044d\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u043a\u0443 \u043d\u0430 \u043d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0443\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043d\u044c\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/istoriya-silk-road-kak-bitkoin-vyvel-darknet-ekonomiku-na-novyj-uroven\/embed#?secret=g17k05fS0n#?secret=QmoWUcqtDJ\" data-secret=\"QmoWUcqtDJ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the court found Ulbricht guilty of trafficking in drugs through the Silk Road darknet marketplace, conspiring to traffic in prohibited substances, hacking computer networks and money laundering, and leading a criminal organization.<\/p>\n<p>In the same year, the founder of the darknet marketplace was sentenced to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, venture capitalist Tim Draper spoke out in favor of Ulbricht&#8217;s release. In March 2020, a petition with a similar demand gathered 275,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, in December Donald Trump instructed the president&#8217;s aides to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/trump-weighs-possible-clemency-for-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht\">examine the documents in Ulbricht&#8217;s case<\/a>. However the Silk Road founder <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-did-not-make-trumps-clemency-list\">was not among those pardoned<\/a> by the former US president.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht received a sentence that was too harsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1217,1568,236],"class_list":["post-36303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-elon-musk","tag-ross-ulbricht","tag-silk-road"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36305,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36303\/revisions\/36305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}