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The Darkest Web

Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives...the Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin

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The Darkest Web

By: Eileen Ormsby
Narrated by: Cat Gould
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Dark... A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure.

Darker... A death in Minnesota leads detectives into the world of dark web murder-for-hire, where hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin is paid to arrange killings, beatings, and rapes.

Darkest... A video circulates, and the pursuit of the monsters responsible for "Daisy's Destruction" leads detectives into the unimaginable horror of the world of hurtcore.

There's the world wide web - the internet we all know that connects us via news, email, forums, shopping, and social media. Then there's the dark web - the parallel internet accessed by only a select few.

Eileen Ormsby has spent the past five years exploring every corner of the dark web. She has shopped on darknet markets, contributed to forums, waited in red rooms, and been threatened by hitmen on murder-for-hire sites. On occasions, her dark web activities have poured out into the real world, and she has attended trials, met with criminals and the law enforcement who tracked them down, interviewed dark web identities and visited them in prison.

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Eileen Ormsby (P)2021 Tantor Crime Law True Crime White Collar & Corporate Crime Murder Emotionally Gripping Scary

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When this was documenting the dark web in the context of real life stories and things that actually happened, it was interesting and engaging. However these parts were interspersed with more theoretical “this is what you could perhaps do on the dark web” parts which I found somewhat less compelling. Narration also wasn’t great with repetitive weird pronunciations, e.g. the way she’d pronounce “forum”.

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This book covers some fascinating topics with a lot of interesting detail. Third section is a tough listen. Problem is, narration was absolutely terrible. I forced myself to finish listening just because the topic was interesting, but it sounds like it is being read by a robot. Weird pauses, pronunciations & inflection, I can’t believe this is a human being. Worst narration I’ve ever heard.

Interesting topic ruined by awful narration

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This is disturbing content. If you think it's going to be an easy listen, you're wrong. However, this is an interesting and detailed overview of the Dark Web with many real examples. It's very sad for those victims detailed here but eye opening for listeners.

You should know what you're getting into

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Matthew Graham, the worst publisher of child abuse was an incel: a socially awkward teen who rejected all offers of help from his family. he did it to impress other men and have power. Appalling individuals like Peter Gérard Scully joined in.
As one peeedo website is taken down, these men just create more.
Real children are physically hurt, mentally destroyed, and killed. For some misfits to get their rocks off.
atp, burn it all down :(

unstoppable

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This is a decent book but it sounds like the narration was done by a text to speech program.

Informative but poor narration

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