“The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.”

—  Jamie Bartlett, book The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld

The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld (2014)

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