A new study of 2,000 U.S. adults shows dark web users report much higher rates of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury and digital self-harm than surface web users.
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.
You mean buy drugs and tickets to Epstein Island? Because that’s what the Dark Web is used for.
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
I use Lemmy through tor. And everything else
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.