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How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream

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Jamie Bartlett |

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• June 2015

There's a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net.

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There's a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net.

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Social media analyst

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In his book "The Dark Net," Jamie Bartlett investigates Internet subcultures, both legal and illegal.

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