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I'm reasonably certain that it would be much more accurate to say that people who are prone to depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury and digital self-harm are more likely to use the dark web.
Broadly, this isn't the first time that it's struck me that pedantic moralizing often relies on reversing cause and effect...
I would say it's more like, yeah of course when a "silent majority" forces a tiny percentage of people to rely on obscure tools to fight constant attacks on their right to free speech, then yeah that world might have that tiny percentage struggling more than the group attacking for fun
You mean buy drugs and tickets to Epstein Island? Because that's what the Dark Web is used for.
It's also used for anonymous communication where there's significant privacy concerns. There's several news organizations that have a dark web presence for sources to share sensitive information/stuff they could be persecuted for.
But yeah, there's a lot of that other stuff going on as well.