I knew what to expect from the first minute after a speach about 'a fuck you to the system' and 'the tools of power'. That's all good, but the government actually made the deep web. There is no fuck you. They have as full an access as possible. They're ain't nothing happening there that they're not allowing. The first page created by Tor was the hidden wiki, which is basically a source of black markets and some sick stuff. Who made the first illegal pages? Seems to me that the whole point of a deep web is for the government to control black markets. But this documentary glamorises the cyber punk stuff, and that's what people want to hear. Just like the hollywood like story of Bitcoin creation. This documentary say bitcoin is free of banks. I know the federal reserve was very interested in digital currency in the 90's, so I wouldnt be quite sure of Bitcoin. Sure it probaboy was the cypher punks lf the 90s. There are just too many unknowns in the whole story. Anyway, this documentary focuses on the Silk Road story and anonymity. The guy running Silk Road is see as some anarchist freedom fighter, but didn't he just sell drugs, to kids sometimes, and capitalised.
The documentary becomes about feeing the poor drug dealer.
Anonymity has become a distorted subject. People talk about it like we lost it, but we never had it. Do you need 100% anominity when looking at a few pages? Im against spying, malware , but if you want true privacy, maybe you should turn off the computers. When you take away the glossy anarchist skin, what kind of society does a deep web actually help create? There is so much to discuss and talk about yet this documentary focuses on one man.