Ross Ulbricht's original vision for the Silk Road was rooted in libertarian beliefs and good intentions.

“I think that especially initially his Quest as you could say was you know had good intentions and he truly did believe in libertarianism and less government and wanted to do something about it”

Silk Road was created based on the libertarian non-aggression principle, where voluntary exchanges that did not harm third parties were permitted.

“it was strictly by the non-aggression principle which is basically a libertarian principle drugs were permitted um you know it was considered a free choice among individuals mostly user amounts of cannabis was what was exchanged on the site and um so yeah so he started that”