Jamie Bartlett
The Dark Net
Jamie Bartlett
The Dark Net
Writer and journalist Jamie Bartlett came to Google London to talk about his book 'The Dark Net'. Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit - a world of Google, Hotmail, Facebook and Amazon - lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. Bartlett himself stepped down into this world that is as creative and complex as it is dangerous and disturbing, and tells stories about what he experienced as a participant in the dark net.
"The Dark Net" is a revelatory examination of the internet today, and of its most innovative and dangerous subcultures, stretching from secret Facebook groups to the encrypted and hidden Tor network. In it, Bartlett goes in search of the people behind the screen, meeting trolls and pornographers, drug dealers and hackers, political extremists and computer scientists, and many more...
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