This is a massive story pertaining to our civil liberties and freedoms and in 20 years likely will be looked back on as the start of something way bigger than just one website or one guy. People realize that SR provided reliably high quality drugs which meant SAFER drugs, and I doubt a month goes by before another site is open. There are two operating right now that have been around a year or so.
The thing that they are seizing on to make him look like a bad guy are two fictional "hits" that never happened, and at least one of them played out like DPR knew that he was talking with narcs, and played along with it in order to silence a blackmail attempt without actually killing anyone.
This is HUGE, and is only starting. DPR is a hero, if Ross Ulbricht is his real name well then Ross is a hero. Someone should start passing a hat around to raise funds to break him out of prison, seriously. He made the government look like the inept, useless bunch of idiots they are for over two years. And that was AFTER he had messed up and used his real name during the beginning stages of SR.