Subjects/subject
dark web
2017-01-10, 1 mention2017-03-14, 2 mentions2017-03-21, 1 mention2017-05-30, 1 mention2018-08-30, 1 mention2019-01-26, 1 mention2019-02-09, 2 mentions
Tim’s take
His consistent position is that the dark web's mythology is a letdown: red rooms and hitmen-for-hire are scams or FBI stings, not real, and he says so repeatedly with genuine disappointment 0:29 19:07 16:31 2:43. He keeps coming back to what's actually there being duller and worse — child exploitation, alt-right forums, radicalization — rather than the theater people imagine 16:31 2:43. By the time he does an episode built around it, he frames dark-web conspiracy theorizing itself as a punchline and says he's more interested in internet culture and radicalization than hacker mythology 0:11 2:43.
Every Reference (9)
"there. Somebody suggested doing an episode where we go on the dark web. I don't know about that. I don't know about that one. Just keep"
"gonna have a real bona fide hacker who's a specialist in the dark web, but he fucking cancelled."
"thought that would have been a nice episode me and Ray go go on the dark web and We based on your tweets order how this person should be kiss"
The Cancelled Dark Web Hacker and the Myth of Red Rooms — Second Life (with Alex Steinberg)+53s into the segment"darknet we're gonna do live from the darknet cuz I read about these things called red rooms which are I found out aren't really true"
"know, we have had, you know, episodes on here about like the dark web and child pornography and people exploiting and abusing children"
Mom's Own Affair, Legalizing Prostitution, and the Documentary Deal — Seeking Arrangements (with Wendi Starling)+175s into the segment"It's the majority of the internet is like unregulated dark web where you get like child porn drugs, you get higher in assassin even though that's all fake, and then the daily storm all these alt right sides."
Daily Stormer, the Dark Web, and Fake Assassins-for-Hire — Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine)+17s into the segment"articles, this is a group that communicates with each other on the dark web. So I asked a friend of mine, I'm like, how could that potentially"
Who's Behind It: Amish Inbreeding, Occult Cults, and Government Cover-ups — The Smiley Face Killers+74s into the segment"I wanted like a hacker on the show and it was very hard to get one who would come on and talk about things that they were doing for obvious reasons, but I wanted also to do a show about not so much the dark web, but about the culture of the internet and places that we don't really visit as much"
"Most of the stuff that's about the dark web is bullshit. There's no red rooms, nobody's paying to see somebody"
What the Dark Web Actually Is (No Red Rooms) — I Am The One Who Dox