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For some strange reason, some people conflate the two terms - deep web and dark web - even when they have essentially nothing in common. Maybe that's where the

• yathern 11y ago
  Exactly. I did a presentation about this for an IT class recently. It's astounding how many 'tip of the iceberg' diagrams are out there, implying that tor is 10 times bigger than the regular internet, and filled with dark and seedy things. They somehow mix up the Dark Web and Deep Web (which are ill defined terms already) and combine their mythologies into one hilariously incorrect idea that there is a whole underground society 10 times bigger than the regular web. More hilarious is how many of these charts put 4chan or the Pirate Bay just below the surface, as if they are hard to find sites. These diagrams are incorrect every way you look at them, besides maybe a "the lower you go, I'm implying the sites are less moral".