Why not just get rid of the Dark Web? | Aaron Warner | TEDxDavenport

The good on the dark web is balanced by the bad, and both are useful. How does either impact you, and what role might the dark web play in your life in the future? Examples will include illicit online markets, safe havens for dissidents, first-hand incident response to hackers, and secure email systems for freedom fighters. Together we will walk from life before the internet through today and into the future to better understand what the dark web means to each of us.

[Rose.Marie.]

This was a great talk ! To be honest I didn't really consider that there could be pros to the dark web, until you brought them up.

[tjkoovalloor]

Educational talk show like this help the public. Congratulations to Davenport!

[Chris_Silverhaze]

My opinion on the drug-trade on Darknet, it's a good thing. It's replacing dodgy meetings on street corners, robberies, scams, violence and the general social problems that come with people who deal in drugs with customer service, reputations, ratings etc. If a darknet seller wants to make money then they have to offer the best service, or people will find out from the feedback and go elsewhere. It's making the drug trade actually civilised.

[lalaalal]

Unpopular opinion; the internet should not be regulated any government, merely the ease of indexing to specific hosts should be considered, but other than that; it should be as open as possible

[CrankyPantss]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[KWifler]

I'm still waiting for upfront society to help "worthless" people in society to find love. I want to see that somewhere. There's no such thing even on the dark web. People on dating sites are only looking for primo top shelf partners. I know because I've languished on dating sites for nearly 15 years. Still, it's ridiculous to think that there's no one out there for me.

[mynameisben]

The question itself is flawed. It assumes the internet is some centrally administered thing, that some individual or organised group of individuals could simply decide to switch off one day.

[igreeuropa]

My guy... this isnt high school tech, this is dark web. Too big to fail-.

[Jennesreads]

You know you spend to much time on booktok when this is the wrong *Aaron Warner*

[Thee_Sinner]

Why not just get rid of the interstate highway system?

[dylannguyen]

The argument that we should make it safer for individuals to take part in activities which have no social good, but result in massive individual AND social harm because there will be some proportion of undividuals who will do them anyway... Im not sure thats a powerful argument when you zoom out.

[varunahlawat]

2 Trillion!!
I've never used it, still!

[nathanroberson]

You just picked the bad examples. Didn’t the 1st South Park get shared and distributed on what you call the “dark web” . Napster was great and open source is important to support. I think you just wish all the control be held in the hand of the “authorities”. Which is bad. We don’t need to empower a centralized authority over all of us.

[lostraviezoz]

The very first time I ever hack a computer is when I was playing Mario bro’s I got all those unlimited lives on the stairs hitting the freaking turtle

[StrangeChickandPuppo]

Before watching, I would say that you can't just get rid of the dark web, because you'd have to re-invent how the internet works to begin with; the dark web isn't even the web in the sense of the world wide web, and a website itself in one sense is kinda like just a poster on a wall whereas removing the poster advertising a concert doesn't stop the concert from happening.

[Meandmymirror]

I have found the dark web to be very un user-friendly!

[nerdlingeeksly]

With complete free speech you take the good with the bad

[stoilion]

why does he gets a platform???? so oversimplified. getting too commercial this ted

[nickmaros]

*I’m so happy I made productive decisions about my finances that changed my life forever.
I’m a single mother living in Melbourne Australia, bought my second house in September
and hoping to retire next year at 50 if things keep going smoothly for me.

[grmpEqweer]

TOR... that's my tax dollars at work...😐