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Why dont police take down the dark internet?

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They can't/don't have the resources to.
It's not simply a part of the Internet. It's lots of different websites that are impossible to find without the exact website name. The deep web is apparently 200 times larger than the normal web we use. Within that is sites that cause harm and pose risks. The police have to wade through all these sites (200x bigger than the amount of sites available to you and I) and find the ones that are harmful because not all are. It's like finding a needle in a haystack. They're only found if someone who currently uses one slips up and tells people or their internet behaviour is tracked. Consequently people use untraceable internet browsers. It's very difficult and very worrying since this is where things like child abuse porn and fraud thrives.

Edit: also half of it can only be accessed whilst using things such as tor. and other obscure browsers.
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One does not simply take down the dark net
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Original post by AstroNandos
One does not simply take down the dark net


Cant be that hard

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Original post by T.I.P
Cant be that hard

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I need you to go and turn off ten thousand computers.

Small catch: You don't get to know where any of them are. Could be anywhere in the world.

Go.
Original post by T.I.P
Cant be that hard

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Genuinely, from the little (and it really is very little) that I understand about the concept of the dark web, it would by it's very nature be almost impossible to "block"

the closest you could get is closing all the routes that people have to access it in the first place.

Imagine the dark web as a mine, the very best you could do as a government is to try and close all the mine shafts, but there are more than you can count, and they grow at a rate quicker than you can find them.
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are you a sad frog ?
Original post by T.I.P
Cant be that hard

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You do it then.
Reply 8
It took them ten years to close down The Pirate Bay - and even that is sort of running still, and could be reopened too (iirc)

How are they going to manage an entire sector of the internet?
Original post by Crystalz
You do it then.


hahaha well done
It's so dark it can't be seen
That's cute.
Reply 12
"dark internet" pmsl :wink:
Because it's not legal to do so. Just because something is hidden to a search engine, doesn't mean it's breaking the law.

That and the fact it's a pretty huge task, most likely impossible.
Original post by T.I.P
Cant be that hard

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This is ignorant to Katie Hopkins levels of ingorance.
Original post by T.I.P
Cant be that hard

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It really is.

If you don't understand why then you really need to research how it all works. It's not a simple task.
Reply 16
Darknet != illegal internet; Darknet = internet where activities cannot be tracked nor content traced.

Firstly, there is no mandate for taking down the entire darmnet unless you can prove that everything on it is illegal, which you simply cannot. Secondly, the darknet is completely decentralised, running through P2P networks with private domains, meaning that even if they wanted to take down the darknet, they couldn't.
Is there a link to one of them websites ? , I can probaly decode their I550 codecs and take them down within a matter of seconds . Easy.
Original post by MrTechGamer
Is there a link to one of them websites ? , I can probaly decode their I550 codecs and take them down within a matter of seconds . Easy.


- Can decode I550 codecs
- Can take down website in matter of seconds
- Can't find website in the first place

Sounds legit.
Reply 19
Not everything on the 'dark' web is illegal.

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