Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users

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I would say it’s more like, yeah of course when a “silent majority” forces a tiny percentage of people to rely on obscure tools to fight constant attacks on their right to free speech, then yeah that world might have that tiny percentage struggling more than the group attacking for fun

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You mean buy drugs and tickets to Epstein Island? Because that’s what the Dark Web is used for.

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When you’re targeted enough, you use it for regular email and stuff. Not sure if you get that. There are probably people who use piefed through tor

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I use Lemmy through tor. And everything else

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It’s also used for anonymous communication where there’s significant privacy concerns. There’s several news organizations that have a dark web presence for sources to share sensitive information/stuff they could be persecuted for.

But yeah, there’s a lot of that other stuff going on as well.

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