20.2 · Lyn Ulbricht · An Earnest Conversation

Ross Ulbricht created the first anonymous dark web marketplace Silk Road where drugs and other items were traded for bitcoin, and was arrested and sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in maximum-security prison without parole.

I have a personal conversation with Ross' mother Lyn about her experience of Ross' trial, her views on US amendment violations, digital snooping, prisons and the drug war. She shares lessons from her long road of activism, then we talk about Ross the person: his upbringing, his philosophies, affinity for eastern spirituality and meditation, and how he has been doing in prison.