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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I once, out of curiosity, mounted an expedition to the darkest regions of the internet, aka The Dark Web.

There's some shit there that can scar you for life. Don't ever go there, seriously.

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was on the Internet in the wild west period when you could just as easily stumble upon the kind of stuff you can only find on the dark web just making a Yahoo search.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh the days of orgish, rotten, thisisacryforhelp, stile project, theync

Why, when I saw.my first decapitation video I was merely a boy!

Yeah, the internet used to be fucked. There were noooo rules. It was kinda like paradise but with landmines. Lots of landmines.

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It still is very fucked especially sites like reddit sometimes

Edit: maybe i underestimated the internet a bit

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you sweet summer child. Reddit has moderation, administration, ...rules? Policies, terms of use?

Reddit is the Disney Channel.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The moderation took way too long but I understand that it could be even worse but the internet is still a fucked up place maybe less than before but still bad

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not "oops, I accidentally stumbled upon a cache of child porn" fucked, like back in the early days of the WWW.

You'll run into fucked up people; but the content is like Sesame Street levels of fucked by comparison.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are some useful websites out there if by darknet you mean the Tor network. BBC, Debian, Reddit, and Z-Library (an eBook download site that had its content availability reduced after legal pressure) for example have onion domains.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LMAO what a bullshit, why does this dumb answer has 20 upvotes?