what was the online silk road 
the online silk road was a black marketplace for anonymous money laundering and drug transactions among other illegal activities it was shut down by the fbi in 2013 and its founder is serving a life sentence illegal activities continue to thrive on the internet on the so called dark web the bottom linemore than 2 000 years ago the silk route was created allowing asians and europeans to trade goods and share knowledge and innovations today china has embarked on a 900 billion project to create a modern silk route that it hopes will kindle a new era of globalization 4