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There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet — accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net.
Now, whatever you think about the morality of these sites — and I submit that it’s not actually an easy question — the creation of functioning, competitive, anonymous markets, where nobody knows who anybody else is, constantly at risk of being shut down by the authorities, is a staggering achievement, a phenomenal achievement. And it’s that kind of innovation that’s why those on the fringes are often the harbingers of what is to come (09:47)
the internet has actually changed many times over the last 30 years or so it started in the ’70s as a military project morphed in the 1980s to an academic network co-opted by commercial companies in the ’90s and then invaded by all of us via social media in the noughties but I think it is going to change again