{"id":863,"date":"2021-03-16T13:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/silk-road-review-high-free-account-of-the-dark-web-drugs-emporium\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:35:32","slug":"silk-road-review-high-free-account-of-the-dark-web-drugs-emporium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/silk-road-review-high-free-account-of-the-dark-web-drugs-emporium\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk Road review \u2013 high-free account of the dark-web drugs emporium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a fanboy stance on Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht doesn\u2019t help Tiller Russell\u2019s underpowered Silicon Valley crime drama<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an unthrilling, bland drama about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/may\/31\/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-jail\">rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht<\/a>, the mastermind behind the illegal online drug emporium Silk Road (described by the FBI as \u201cthe Amazon of drug sites\u201d). Between 2011 and 2013, PhD dropout Ulbricht made millions of dollars in commissions from users on the dark web anonymously buying and selling drugs. Then he got busted.<\/p>\n<p>If you consider how gripping David Fincher made a bunch of geeks in hoodies talking about algorithms look in The Social Network, the Ulbricht story \u2013 involving an FBI manhunt and allegations of murder-for-hire \u2013 should be a doddle. But watching Silk Road is a bit like rolling a joint only to find the leafy green substance you\u2019ve been sold is oregano. The highs just don\u2019t come.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/mar\/16\/silk-road-review-ross-ulbricht\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a7ca378dd878064dd0980da69d43e9f2e1caed94\/0_133_2000_1200\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ec1893092c680a5d4178aed8e4fc2172\" title=\"Silk Road review \u2013 high-free account of the dark-web drugs emporium\" \/>Taking a fanboy stance on Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht doesn\u2019t help Tiller Russell\u2019s underpowered Silicon Valley crime drama<br \/>\nHere\u2019s an unthrilling, bland drama about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the illegal online drug emporium Silk Road (described by the FBI as \u201cthe Amazon of drug sites\u201d). Between 2011 and 2013, PhD dropout Ulbricht made millions of dollars in commissions from users on the dark web anonymously buying and selling drugs. Then he got busted.<br \/>\nIf you consider how gripping David Fincher made a bunch of geeks in hoodies talking about algorithms look in The Social Network, the Ulbricht story \u2013 involving an FBI manhunt and allegations of murder-for-hire \u2013 should be a doddle. But watching Silk Road is a bit like rolling a joint only to find the leafy green substance you\u2019ve been sold is oregano. The highs just don\u2019t come. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a fanboy stance on Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht doesn\u2019t help Tiller Russell\u2019s underpowered Silicon Valley crime drama Here\u2019s an unthrilling, bland drama about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the illegal online drug emporium Silk Road (described by the FBI as \u201cthe Amazon of drug sites\u201d). Between 2011 and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/silk-road-review-high-free-account-of-the-dark-web-drugs-emporium\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silk Road review \u2013 high-free account of the dark-web drugs emporium<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}