The Dark Web has had some seriously bad press. It's blamed for everything from the proliferation of child pornography, to facilitating cyber fraud, peddling hard drugs, hacking email inboxes, selling malware, supporting ISIS, and even allowing people to hire contract killers. But what if there was a brighter side to the phenomenon that we've learned to see as "dark" and "shady"? While it would be foolish to ignore the very real abuses on the Dark Web, there's actually a case to be made in its defense, from freeing dissidents to share information, to protecting whistleblowers from persecution. Here are three reasons to give it a second glance.
A Dissident's Best FriendThe modern world is filled with regimes that are hungry for information about their citizens. They may vary in the degrees of repression and brutality, but governments from Beijing to Washington, DC, are ready and able to censor information and put dissidents behind bars if the truths they hold are inconvenient.
The Dark Web complicates the task of secret police, allowing whistleblowers to leave tranches of information about anything from illegal diamond mining to nuclear arsenals. For instance, back in 2013, The Guardian revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) had been monitoring the phone calls of American citizens, whether or n ..
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