• multicolorKnight
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    Tor. A serious study of as many .onion sites as I could find. There are many reasons why people want to be anonymous. I don’t know why, I just felt compelled to look at the edges of humanity.

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      Back in the early 2000s, I heard tell of Freenet, thought it sounded like a cool project, and started poking around there. I soon determined that a lot of the material being exchanged there was not anything I wanted anywhere near my disk, even encrypted. Deleted it pretty darn quick.

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        Sounds like when I was a kid in middle school around that era and just discovering the wild world of internet porn. Saw girls my age in some of the darker corners of the net back then, and somehow something clicked that I probably shouldn’t be seeing what I was seeing.

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      this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?

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        Drug dealers, arms dealers, hit men, conspiracy theorists with apparent mental health issues, child porn. I was at least somewhat amused until the last, then it was like, “Yeah no, I’m done with this” All you need is a copy of TAILS.

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          yeah, ouch. my condolences to your humanity. :-(

          If there is a credible global survey of .onion sites available (with content statistics), I would definitely be interested in it.

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        Its still going to be the majority of what you think. I also went to look at tor network once and it was disturbing. Child porn and hit men. I seriously didn’t sleep well for awhile after.

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        It’s pretty hard to just stumble upon the messed up shit. Normally there is a “Hidden Wiki” maintained by the community that has links to popular sites. All the urls are randomized and look like foc8u6bsi.onoon so you can’t just try hitman.onion or something.

        I used to like looking at the dark net markets and random forums I saw linked because the people were crazy/interesting. I actually got Hulu/Netflix accounts for like $4 bitcoin when I was a stupid 14 year old.