I often wonder why the government just can’t shut down the dark/deep web if it’s really a dangerous part of the internet where all sorts of illegal stuff take place.
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I often wonder why the government just can’t shut down the dark/deep web if it’s really a dangerous part of the internet where all sorts of illegal stuff take place.
I don’t think you want to stop dark web, what you do want is to stop the illegal things going on inside dark web. Honestly, I have been thinking the same idea for a long time because of many reported cases of kidnapping and enslaving others in dark web. I am quite sure that no one has a real solution for this problem, but I do believe it should be handled in certain extents one day as there are people suffering due to it and compassion is one of the fundamental parts that define human being.
Contrary to what you might think, law enforcement agencies have taken down quite a few of these markets on dark web, but it’s not very simple, and certainly it doesn’t happen overnight. Few years ago, a major market was shut down: Hansa Market, and prior to that, AlphaBay, which was one of the largest. They’ve also shut down many smaller sites that I’ve come across, although these don’t make the news, because they aren’t fodder for good headlines. In fact, a friend of mine had two of his forum sites shut down, because they were promoting criminal activity – I have my doubts about this. It is difficult to track the locations of people operating sites on them. Also, plenty of the sites on Tor are perfectly legal – you have chat rooms, forums, and social networks, not unlike the “clearnet” (non-dark web). So, it’s kind of somehow to say government should shut down the deep web.