Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users

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• WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m reasonably certain that it would be much more accurate to say that people who are prone to depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury and digital self-harm are more likely to use the dark web.

  Broadly, this isn’t the first time that it’s struck me that pedantic moralizing often relies on reversing cause and effect…

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  • iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would say it’s more like, yeah of course when a “silent majority” forces a tiny percentage of people to rely on obscure tools to fight constant attacks on their right to free speech, that tiny percentage might be struggling more than the group attacking for fun

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    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You mean buy drugs and tickets to Epstein Island? Because that’s what the Dark Web is used for.

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  • U@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You eloquently expressed my thoughts. But I find the second part of your comment particularly insightful. It strikes a deeper chord worth what might motivate that reversal.

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    • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a thing I hadn’t really thought about before, but as I was writing that, I was thinking how many times I’d written similar things in the past - about heavy metal music, comic books, dungeons and dragons, violent video games…

      And it struck me that that was too consistent to be coincidental - that there had to be some basic failure at work there.

      And thinking sbout it more - it’s at least broadly the same dynamic as the endless loop of class- and race-based bigotry. Systems are established by which members of a particular class or race (or ethnic group or gender or sexual persuasion or…) are disadvantaged - poorer nutrition, less stable housing, poorer education, fewer opportunities, etc. - then point to the ignorance, frustration and antisocial tendencies that triggers as nominal evidence of their inherent inferiority, by which they’re rightly denied equal treatment.

      I’m willing to bet that there’s a significant body of work out there on this topic

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We had the “AI chatbot” mental illness link the other day, what’s next, people using apps to bet on sports are poorer?

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• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No shit suicidal people are turning to the dark web. People are not allowed to talk frankly about it hardly anywhere. Apparently we can’t even talk shit about ourselves without it being labeled “digital self-harm 😭”.

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, there are tons of places where you can’t even start a frank discussion about it without just being spammed with the suicide prevention hotline and have your post/comments taken down. Yeah, it’s SUPER important that people know those resources exist when they’re in crisis but you can’t just send them that, block them from talking to people when they may not have anyone else to talk to, then congratulate yourself on a job well done.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Correlation doesn’t mean causation

  This is so important to understand.

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• Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Correlation is not causality

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Causation*

    but yes

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      He was still right.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The complement of the surface web is the deep web, not the dark web.

  Deep web = sites that are not indexed by search engines. Surface web = sites that are.

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  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep, the term they were looking for is clear web.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder if this is less of a link between those things and the dark web, and more of a link between the mental issues and being beyond terminally online and over-informed about all the most horrible shit out there.

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• m532@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The only way you can’t have poor mental health in the empire is to consciously ignore everything bad all the time. This doesn’t count as a ‘mental health problem’ (it clearly is), as its how the bourgies want us to be.

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• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unsurprising.

  The dark web exists to serve criminals, subversives, and paranoid people. Why else would someone go to the trouble of accessing a part of the internet with a worse user interface that requires additional work to access? There is a pre-existing filter for people who are mentally unwell.

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  • frizzo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You win the most nescient comment I have read today. I long for the time when it filtered out people with narrow minded views like yourself.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tell me how I am wrong - how else am I to learn?

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  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wow, people just immediately proved your point in replies.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh yes? Who says that? God I can’t take it, I swear I’m gonna cut myself… irl and in Minecraft.

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