Pause before you judge the Dark Net

Polis Intern and LSE MSc student Jin Yan reports on the latest Polis Media Agenda Talk featuring Jamie Bartlett, author of the book Dark Net and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. In his talk, Bartlett addressed three difficult moral questions raised by the anonymous, untraceable ‘dark net’: online drug markets, online political extremists and pro-anorexia fora. Should internet regulation touch upon these hidden online communities or should we leave them free?