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I will just say that I never heard of the ",Dark Web" until the last year or so.
I’ve known about it for a while - a lot of it is criminal. Credit card fraud, drugs dealing, and so on.
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It seems that alot of sites are getting erased from existence.
It doesn’t seem that way to me. But sites come and go all the time.
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I was glad to hear that the illicit porn sites have been driven there, but it seems that 98% of Dark Web sites tend to be political in nature (albeit many have had posters that advocated for violence, at one time or another).
I really doubt that. I can’t imagine that less than 2% are criminal.
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The other issue:
The censorship, on social media platforms, seems collusive - and to a fairly large extent. So, an antitrust context it is within.
It doesn’t seem that way to me at all. What evidence do you have of collusion? Don’t forget that you thought there was a big constitutional issue because you couldn’t find a twenty-year old news article even though it was on the web and was indexed by search engines (that’s how I found it).