The Dark Net Book Report

Have you ever thought of how illegal good are sold on the internet or wanted to understand the reason why bitcoin was created? “The Dark Net” written by Jamie Bartlett, journalist and technology blogger of The Telegraph, gives a first person perspective of the darkest part of the net. Be warned: this book contains sensitive and disturbing topics and is not for all audiences. From exposing online cam girls to their friends and family, to a man discussing his experience when caught and arrested for the possession of child pornography, it leaves no major topic untouched. Much can be learned from the contents in this book, which is why I recommend it for mature audiences who want to look into the darkest part of our humanity exposed by the web.
I was slightly disappointed by my expectations of what I thought the book would consist of versus what it included. …show more content…
Obviously he could not view the “material” himself because it’s extremely illegal, so part of the chapter was learning about a convicted male and how he was arrested for the possession of child pornography. They concealed his name for privacy purposes but “Michael” states, “I have absolutely no idea how this happened, I really don’t.” He further explains that he began to look at explicit material for sexual purposes and was attracted to younger women but was interested over time in younger women and was exposed to “jailbait”. Jailbait is known as “barely legal” pornography and Michael was groomed in tiny increments. “It’s not the computers fault. It’s Michaels fault. But if it had been harder for him to find, if jailbait pornography wasn’t so easily accessible, perhaps Michael’s casual or vaguely formed attraction to children would never have been explored” (Bartlett, page 132). All it took for Michael was Three Clicks and proves Bartlett’s purpose of writing about how the dark net is dangerous was