{"id":650334,"date":"2025-01-22T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-pardons-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:20:16","slug":"trump-pardons-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-pardons-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous dark web exchange Silk Road, which was best known as a once-thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs. <\/p>\n

Trump announced the news<\/a> in a Truth Social post<\/a>, saying the pardon was in honor of Ulbricht\u2019s mother and the Libertarian movement.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s post on Truth Social<\/a> Tuesday. <\/span>Image Credits:<\/strong>Truth Social (screenshot)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2015, a federal judge sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for operating Silk Road under the pseudonym \u201cDread Pirate Roberts.\u201d But last May, while on the 2024 campaign trail, Trump promised to commute Ulbricht\u2019s life sentence<\/a> while speaking to the Libertarian National Convention.<\/p>\n

Ulbricht started Silk Road as a Libertarian experiment, and the party has been lobbying to exonerate Ulbricht of his crimes for years now. Within the Libertarian Party, many viewed Ulbricht\u2019s life sentence as a symbol of government overreach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous dark web exchange Silk Road, which was best known as a once-thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs. Trump announced the news in a Truth Social post, saying the pardon was in honor of Ulbricht\u2019s mother and the Libertarian movement. Trump\u2019s post on Truth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2154663034.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[83245,78420,151537,151418,151454,27002],"class_list":["post-650334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ross-ulbricht","tag-silk-road","tag-government-policy","tag-in-brief","tag-tc","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}