Jason White wrote:
On 11/8/20 5:25 PM, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Jason;
just out of interest. would you see any aspect of the Darknet as "productive and beneficial ?
I absolutely do not support or condone anything that involves criminal activity, so I suppose that means no, unless it has legal and benign uses as well.
Well of course laws do change and some activities which once were criminal are not now and vicar-versa But my own interest in the Darknet springs from an increasing concern with what might be called 'radical privacy'; this is the notion that individuals, commercial and civil organisations, and municipal, state, federal and international; regulatory authorities are not entitled to ask for any more personal information from an individual; than the task or service that they are being called upon to perform for that individual, requires. This is of course a radical departure from current approaches to privacy; where privacy is regarded as something to be balanced, against the needs of the state etc. Some how entitlement to privacy, specifically anonymity seems to have slipped from the default; to something which needs justification. "What do you need to hide ? I mention all of this because on the Darknet, anonymity does seem to be the default, in contrast to the Internet generally; where account registration with username and password and payment via traceable media (personal credit/debit card..etc); seems to have become the norm, regards Rohan McLeod