Look Who's Watching, Revised Edition by Fen Osler Hampson

Author:Fen Osler Hampson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MQUP

Figure 6.7: National Perspectives on Shutting Down the Dark Web

Source: Data from the CIGI-Ipsos 2016 Global Survey.

Shutting down Tor could harm the interests of those who simply value their online privacy. Numbers on the pattern of traffic across the entire Tor network show that 94 to 97 percent of all traffic on the Tor network actually stays on the surface Web and does not go anywhere near the Dark Net websites that Owen and Savage catalogued in their own study (Figure 6.8).39 What this suggests is that a unilateral move to shut down Tor to take the Dark Web off-line would impinge upon the privacy of many ordinary network users.

Shutting down Tor would also affect the security and personal safety of users in repressive regimes. Tor is often the only available tool for dissidents, human rights advocates and journalists to remain private and access censored information. As we saw in an earlier chapter, repressive regimes tend to restrict online content in extremis. Some countries (for example, Pakistan) ban sites like YouTube; others (Turkey, for one) ban Twitter; others (such as China) enforce a ban against a host of Western companies.

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