The Dark Web.
The deep net.
The big onion.
We hear a lot about what goes on behind closed
TORs, illicit trading, drug purchases and
even assassins for hire… but what if it
was legit?
Hello and welcome back to life’s biggest
questions, the channel that looks to answer
a whole bunch of queries from the serious
to the whimsical, from the political to the
apocalyptical….I am your host Rebecca Felgate
and today I am asking What If The Dark Web
Was Legal.
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What if the Dark Web Was Illegal?
LADIES and gentlemen, hold on to your hats
– this is about to be the shortest Life’s
Biggest Questions answer ever…
The Dark web is legal!
Or, it isn’t illegal, anyway!
Not in democratic free speaking countries.
But … wait…
I can’t stop a video after one minute…so
let’s elaborate a bit and then go on one
of our classic LBQ flights of What If Fancy.
Firstly – let me explain the web and its
many layers.
The surface web is things like Yahoo, Google,
all mainstream, websites.
Basically all indexed websites.
Your .coms and the like.
Everything with a normal web address.
The deep web is unindexed, encrypted websites,
private or protected sites.
The kind of things you will find on the deep
web are sensitive information like medical
records, government records and reports, private
science studies, legal documents and the like.
Then we have the dark web, which you need
a TOR for.
A TOR obscures your computers IP address,
making those who access the pages of the dark
web anonymous and untrackable…ish, anyway.
Using a TOR for internet anonymity isn’t
illegal, in fact the US Department of Defence
have partially funded it in some areas.
In fact, TORs have actually been helpful in
some non-democratic countries, allowing people
in China and some Islamic countries where
the state control the internet to access wider
information.
Countries, including France, are looking at
ways to ban TORs for safety purposes, but
electing to protect your anonymity is not
and will never be illegal in a free country.
Accessing the deep and dark web isn’t illegal
either and not all websites found on the deep
web are illicit.
The infamous Ross Ulbright, creator of the
silk road, had a book club on the deep web!
So – speaking of silk road – the drug
purchasing site hosted in the deep web was
illegal and saw Ulbricht jailed for life plus
40 years without the possibility of parole.
But, again, here is the loop hole – visiting
the Silk Road site isn’t illegal, buying
and selling drugs is illegal.
Ulbricht wasn’t arrested for creating a
dark web site, but for trafficking drugs.
There are some sites on the dark web that
are illegal though – by and large sites
hosting child pornography.
Viewing child pornography is illegal, so clicking
on a website showing it is breaking the law.
One of the most disgusting dark web stories
ever to emerge was of a dark web site call
The Destruction of Daisy, which was a vile
child snuff, abuse and torture site run by
Australian Peter Scully, who is now facing
the death penalty.
The dark web is an unpredictable place where
the lines between legal and illegal are horribly
blurred.
You are also not always as anonymous as you
think – it is possible for a web genius
to hack a TOR and find out exactly who you
are – it is best not to stoke the hornets
nest and gain any unwanted attention or accidentally
do something you don’t want to do that could
land you in trouble, or worse.
It is, of course, up to you , though.
If we were to take this question to mean what
if everything that calls the dark web home
was legal, then we would be talking about
a world where child abuse and indecency is
legal, drug trade is above board, live murder
streams are acceptable, it is possible to
hire someone to kill for you, credit card
fraud is legit, fake passports are a-okay,
buying poison is not only fine, but easy,
explosives can be bought, shipped and detonated…ISIS
are legally able to source recruits…the
list goes on but basically equates to the
same thing – all hell breaks loose.
If everything on the dark web was legal, it
would basically mean everything is a-okay.
So far as I understand, there is no limit
as to what you can do and by on the dark web.
Thankfully, though….if you are caught doing
shady stuff, you still have to answer to the
law.
So guys, that was some dark web chat for you.
What are your thoughts?
Have you ever accessed the dark web?
Let me know in the comments section down below.
Are you surprised it IS legal?
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Thanks for tuning into this episode of life’s
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Felgate – I’ll catch you in the next video
– but until then, stay curious, stay alert
and never ever stop questioning.
