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The Dark Web is a PSYOP. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Monkey@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

the video is positing that tor is being leveraged as a honeypot -- meaning that they're aware that you're buying your darkweb services and it will never become an issue so long as they don't need something from you.

it seems feasible since there's plenty of precedent for it -- nearly have of all websites that carried known csam materials were honeypots at one point