There is a good argument for why the creator of Silk Road shouldn't go to prison

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Ross Ulbricht, the creator of online black market Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison by a judge in federal court Friday. 

Silk Road Survival: In conversation with 'Deep Web' director Alex Winter

An unassuming, Mormon family man. A brilliant physics and engineering student with a goofy smile. Five years ago, neither of these men knew each other, let alone suspected that they'd be drawn into a web suffused with libertarian dogma, hard drugs and the sort of rhetorical dedication that allegedly drove that student -- Ross Ulbricht -- to order a hit on that family man.