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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 521 The Dark Net: What Happens Online When There's No Government Around?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Author Jamie Bartlett joins me to discuss the "dark net," that corner of the Internet that can be accessed only with a special browser. What goes on there, and why is it important for the cause of freedom?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 521.

0:03.5

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.1

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.0

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0:19.5

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0:27.3

tomwoods.com slash moon. Welcome to the promised episode on the dark net. I will leave it to our

0:35.1

guest to tell us exactly what the dark net is all about, but I know

0:39.2

you're going to find this episode interesting, partly because you're going to learn something

0:43.9

about the internet that you probably didn't know. But secondly, there are interesting

0:48.2

conclusions that might be of particular interest to libertarians in all this. And joining me to help understand this and to talk to

0:57.8

us about it is Jamie Bartlett, who is the director of the Center for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos,

1:05.2

which is a think tank in Britain. As a matter of fact, Jamie Bartlett is joining us from Britain today.

1:10.6

And he is the author of

1:11.8

Net, inside the digital underworld. We will be linking to it, of course, on the show notes page.

1:17.9

Today's link is tomwoods.com slash 521. One quick reminder, I've been telling you about an entrepreneur

1:25.4

who has been sort of a mentor of mine over the years,

1:28.8

Eben Pagan, and he's got a program that helps you identify what your idea would be

1:34.3

that would help you to develop a digital product and thereby an online business.

1:40.4

I've been doing this myself, so I'm not just throwing something at you that I know nothing about.

1:45.8

This is what I do.

1:47.2

This is all I do.

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