Abby Martin: Privacy, Control and the Darknet

Abby Martin: Privacy, Control and the Darknet

Screenshot by Dandelion Salad via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

with Abby Martin

Empire Files on Jun 19, 2017

Out of the periphery of most online users, there’s a vast, hidden space used by people who want to remain anonymous, which filmmaker Alex Winter explores in his documentary Deep Web. The film focuses on the Silk Road, a black market hosted on the Darknet using bitcoin cryptocurrency, and the trial of Ross Ulbricht, who was given a double life sentence without the possibility of parole for creating and hosting the site.

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