Dark Net

Dark Net. Not just another futuristic police film with a completely unintelligible Sylvester Stallone in the lead, but a new series of mini-documentaries from Showtime's sleeve. The home of Dexter, Shameless and The Affair last year with document maker Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) shone some light on the devil's seven sins, this time they descend with a flashlight into the deep dark recesses of the internet. Personally, I am actually only on the internet to collect as many cat pictures as possible. Ok, sometimes I also use it to order such a folded unit with a lot of ground beef, avocado and extra bacon at The Burrito Maker (piece of illegal advertising) or to like very old photos of that one girl on Facebook to put her on a rather passive-aggressive way of expressing how much I like her. But the Internet is more than that. Much more. If the internet is a city, most of us really only see the tidy streets with lampposts that come on at the slightest twilight. Of course you will sometimes cycle past an American Apparel billboard with a proudly piercing woman's nipple on your way to your destination, but it will not get much more shocking than that. But a city does not only consist of cozy bars and tightly raked parks. You literally only have to lift a manhole cover and you see all the dirt that man squeezes into the world flowing under your feet (Jesus, I am sitting in the picture here). The dark side of the city. The neighborhoods where you don't want to go out on the street after ten o'clock, because any guy with a long coat in passing can just swaffle your thigh. The sinister corners where it permanently smells like an Amsterdam piss curl. That part of town, that part, they call it the Dark Net. Dark Net is not the foamy microwave meal community, which in every comment box she encounters scolds Anouk for saying something about adapting Zwarte Piet. Dark Net is also not horny Gerrit, who after five beers in a fit of insanity and loneliness every now and then tweet a photo of his dick to you. No, Dark Net does go a step further. It is the story of an online content moderator, who, in order to let you Google image calmly, had to screen so much heartbreaking misery that she was overwhelmed. The story of Filipino mothers, who put their eight-year-old daughters naked behind the webcam, so that dapper, sweating Americans can go wild. It is the hypogonder, who monitors his entire life with apps and lets the internet determine whether he is doing well. It's that and much more fun. If you have kids growing up, maybe you shouldn't watch Dark Net. It could make you so despondent and paranoia that raising your kids in the information age would become next to impossible. No, it is not pleasant at all. Most frightening. Frightening, because with the internet we have created a monster that we have long lost control of. Whether it's something relatively small like downloading the latest movies or the highly secured networks where millions of sick ghosts share photos and videos of small children, they are persistent weeds that always crop up somewhere. It is sobering to be pushed with your nose on the (other) reality by Dark Net, but just like in 7 Deadly Sins, it is a shame that they do this in such a ridiculous speed. If Netflix takes ten episodes to chew out Steven Avery's trial in Making A Murderer, then the story of a convicted Anonymous hacktivist could get a bit more airtime than the 20 minutes that Showtime takes. Dark Net is mainly a lot of scratching on the surface and you clearly have to go somewhere else for deepening. On the internet, for example. gumstarr.com

This documentary would mainly be about the dark web ... Until now this has hardly been discussed and it is mainly about the 'dangers' on the normal internet (surface web), which is actually mainly known. And then that ep about people who would be allergic to wifi signals (I really don't think f * ck of ... Bit of a setback this. The dark web (part of the deep web) is something that many people do not know about and which mainly contains sick and dangerous sites etc. If only they would bring that to light with a documentary series like this one.