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RE: Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Silk Road political prisoner Ross Ulbricht, is now on Steemit!

in #introduceyourself8 years ago

I am not sure if any of you remember the day that Ross was arrested, but as soon as it was announced, I immediately went to his Youtube page to watch his videos and to learn more.

All but one had been hacked by (unknown) and the videos either wouldn't play or they were sped up with no sound. The strange thing was that some of the videos may have held a political message, because one was about the UN.

I find this really odd, because if the government is censoring him for a political message and has him locked up, wouldn't he be considered a political prisoner?

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Very interesting. I remember briefly seeing the one about the UN, but no longer. I do consider him a political prisoner, based on the enormous disparity of sentencing between him and the other Silk Road defendants (and plan to write here about that); and comments the judge made at sentencing, where she essentially used unattributed political statements on Silk Road, and those by DPR, to bolster her evil sentence.