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The dark web doesn't give online anonymity a bad name. Charlatans use the dark web to advance their goal of branding anonymity as bad. Clickbait hot take blog
by finnthehuman 9y ago
The dark web doesn't give online anonymity a bad name.
Charlatans use the dark web to advance their goal of branding anonymity as bad.
Clickbait hot take bloggers, "journalists" who should know better, and other useful idiots are all more than willing to assassinate character and tear down something they don't care about if it confers a benefit to themselves (attention, status, ad impressions, etc...).
Those are the bigger problem. Not the "dark web."
It's nice that this author is making the principled case for anonymity. But that should be secondary to showing people the bigger picture, and how to "smell out" when they're being mislead for someone's myopic goals.
- slededit 9y agoI don't see how pointing this out helps advance the goal of web anonymity. Unless you are suggesting we somehow find a way to change human nature.
- alphapapa 9y agoIt helps us see through the deceptive arguments against anonymity. You don't think that's helpful?
- slededit 9y agoNot really, no. While logically inconsistent the form of rhetoric used appeals to humans which are behaviorally dominated by group association. Pointing out its logical inconsistency appeals to a very small subset of the population who probably already agree with you.
- alphapapa 9y agoWhat a cynical, defeatist attitude. The Internet is full of people, and you don't know who reads what. Everyone has to learn somewhere, to start from something. Your logic essentially is, "No one can learn anything; their opinions are fixed," but that's obviously false, as we have all learned or else we would be unable to read and write and do everything else we do. In fact, your posting your own comment contradicts your logic, as according to it, there's no point to saying what you said, since it can't change anyone's mind.
- slededit 9y agoIt is not defeatist to suggest energies would be better spent elsewhere. Defeatism would be if I said we could never convince people of the need for privacy.