[Article] 71% Want The Dark Net Shut Down, Showing Most Have No Idea What The Dark Net Is

Much like encryption, Tor and the dark net are frequently demonized. One, because they're simply poorly understood by the vast majority of the public. And two, because like any tools, they can be used for good, evil, or old-fashioned chaos. That this isn't the tool's fault is -- for some annoying reason -- a very difficult idea for some people's brain matter to digest. 

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160329/15041234047/71-want-dark-net-shut-down-showing-most-have-no-idea-what-dark-net-is.shtml


Comments


[8 Points] None:

Maybe if you stopped giving it such negative connotations and point towards the benefits, you'd have a good thing.

Stop calling it the dark web. Give it a better name. People don't like dark things.


[2 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

I would also like to see the darknet shut down.

Temporarily

I need a paid vacation.


[1 Points] IamTheLSDWalrus:

Comes as no surprise when the only time the darknet comes up in the media is in relation to drugs or cp & most of the general public take mass media as unbias truth.


[1 Points] None:

"ol fashioned chaos" this


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

The general public want their drugs on the clearnet so they can browse them at work. Anyway, you can prove anything with statistics. 82% of people will tell you that.