Ulbricht is set to be sentenced Friday... Prosecutors are asking a Manhattan judge to sentence a San Francisco man who created the online drug-peddling site Silk Road to decades in prison, while the defendant is asking to be freed soon enough to show... A San Francisco man who created the online drug-selling site Silk Road has been sentenced to life in prison. The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing that the government agency expand a phone subsidy program for the poor to include Internet access.