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Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says (reuters.com)
Alastair Sharp reports for Reuters: Seven in 10 people say the 'dark net' -- an anonymous online home to both criminals and activists fearful of government surveillance -- should be shut down, according to a global Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. The findings, from a poll of at least 1,000 people in each of 24 countries, come as policymakers and technology companies argue over whether digital privacy should be curbed to help regulators and law enforcement more easily thwart hackers and other digital threats.
How about the darkest nets of them one, the ones where government secrets are kept from citizens so that corrupt politicians can stay in power. I vote 100% for the removal of those. So get rid of them first and then government agencies and then all businesses worth more than one hundred million dollars and then all religious organisations in fact any organisation with a tax free status and then I have no problem with them coming for the rest of us. Of course to be fair, I already have no digital privacy and encryption would definitely create problems for me (better to let them digitally in, then have them force their way physically in).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Perhaps we should also ban all of the books in dark libraries? - that would be any book not found in a public library. After all there could be dangerous information in books that haven't been screened and approved for general public consumption by your local library staff.
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Outlaw encrypted connections. No more SSL, no more legal VPN services, no more standardized, general encryption for connections. If you see anything you can't inspect the packets for at the telco without decryption, you order telecoms to dump those packets into the bit bucket at the router.
Only exception: if you want to do business with someone securely, you have to register with them so you can receive the appropriate key which only works from your identity to their servers. That key is available to the government, and might even be already on file so they don't even need to ask the business for it. Maybe it is the government that issues your private key. Your packets have your ID number in the header, and the routing can only happen between your registered key and the IP address(es) of the merchant site.
Not likely to happen in the US, but a place like China could force it. They already force all sorts of registration. If it was a real program, they'd have to phase it in or their economy flounders, but I think China is moving in that direction. They just need to re-write some protocols and get a few more capabilities.
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Many years ago a newspaper asked me about a child porn case where the city was giving out webhosting. This was in 1997 or 1998.
One of their questions was if it was OK for the city to hand out a place to host child porn for free at the cost of the citizens.
It was obvious to me that they were trying to set me up to say that it was terrible that a city gives out places to host child porn.
My reaction was to separate the hosting of child porn and the giving away of webspace. I praised the city to give people the opportunity to get a website (not evident then where I lived) and the fact that it is up to the police, whom I had informed about the child porn and they had done nothing, to go after illegal usage.
I am well aware many people will not see what the intend of the questions is (besides from getting an answer)
In the end the police tried to bully me by saying I was distributing childporn (I had send the URL to them, after I saw it in a Usenet group that fights Internet abuse), identity falsification (because I used face info to activate a free email account) and found me by calling my company telling my manager that they wanted to talk to me concerning a child porn case. Luckily my boss wasn't stupid and even offered to pay for a lawyer if anything ever came of it.
Somehow after that I NEVER saw anything illegal anywhere ever again. Not online, not offline.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.