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[–] sharktoes@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I’ve heard of a lot of scientists using the dark web just to access research articles “illegally” lol

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

"the dark web" is police fascist fearmongering for tech that lets people access the internet from censored countries

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The dark web is a specific section of the *deep web that can be accessed only using specific software configurations or authorizations

The name make sense because it's in fact hidden, dark and makes quite a bit of sense, the problem is that dark things do make people quite a bit scared and that was then weaponized

And i say that because i don't want to go against whatever you said but to expand on the (in my opinion, too) simplistic view you shared

*the deep web is that huge chunk of the internet that is not indexed by any search engine

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there are onion search engines and directories, and "the dark web" refers to ANY onion site

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I am sure i need to use the TOR network to use an onion search engine

Edit: apparently not?

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am sure I need the WWW network to use a search engine

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