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It’s been more than three months that the Sushant Singh Rajput case has kept us on our toes and glued to the various news, YouTube channels and social media. With some channels telecasting that the AIIMS panel “ruled out murder” on October 2, 2020 (I’m writing this just after that) and others viciously negating it, adding that these fake news channels should be brought to justice, our brains are oscillating between why would a completely genius person with so many futuristic ideas up his sleeve, commit suicide, and the belief that he was murdered gruesomely and shown live on the Dark Web. Not just SSR, even Disha Salian was murdered, and 14 others who had become the victim of Dark Web atrocities.

Yesterday I watched this very dark film on Netflix, ‘Unfriended: The Dark Web’. It shows how a group of friends, by simply sitting in front of the computer in a group chat, land themselves inside the Dark Web and get gruesomely killed, right in their homes, one by one. This movie gave me the chilling foreshadowing of what could have really happened to Sushant, if he came to know about the secrets of the Dark Web, a likely thing, since he was a techie master. Maybe he did come to know about the child pornography, child trafficking and prostitution, maybe he did see videos of torture and child porn done by the bigwig political leaders, who we are talking of so much. Maybe he did know too much about the drug nexus that Bollywood is now so strapped with. Maybe he was about to speak about it. Maybe he was forming a team to be able to bring this whole thing to the fore.
Now his whole team is murdered.

No! I will not believe he committed suicide even if CBI shouts it till they are blue in the face.

No, I am not going back to the drawing board talking about why he couldn’t have committed suicide, with some 50 reasons repeated in social media over and over again. I’m sure the CBI are not that dumb. Since I am not in India, I cannot march to the front to protest against this, I am using my blog to do so. Speak out against the Dark Web.

The Dark Web. We all came to know about this in details when a YouTuber named Vibhor Anand said in an explosive YouTube interview that SSR was murdered and some people, including the residents of Matoshree (home of Chief Minister of Maharashtra) watched the murder live. It shocked the senses out of us and I’m sure, like me, a lot of you spent quite a few restless nights. The movie I watched yesterday looked like a narration of this exact situation, though the director of the film made in 2018, Stephen Susco, possibly had no foresight of a Bollywood actor getting murdered in the almost similar fashion after two years. The film is a terrifying foreshadowing of what could have happened to our SSR, if we negate all the fake AIIMS report and CBI shillyshallying, that is going back to the drawing board over and over again.
‘Unfriended: The Dark Web’. is a 2018 American horror film written and directed by Stephen Susco in his directorial debut. Shot as a computer screen film, the film is a sequel to the 2014 film, ‘Unfriended’, and follows a group of friends who find a laptop that has access to the dark web, only to realize they are being watched by the original owners, a group of cybercriminal hackers. They watch in horror videos of abducted women being tortured, raped and killed in the most gruesome manner.
The protagonist of this film, Matias, finds out in a stolen computer some horrifying videos of the Dark Web and shares them with his online friends. The laptop belongs to a serial murderer involved in a heinous global crime ring who finds his location, and in a series of despicable acts of cyber-bullying, the ring attack each of his online friends and kill them, in different countries, pushing one over board in the subway, hanging one friend, and in different other gruesome ways, as Matias watches online helplessly.

In one of the reviews on commonsensemedia.org there is a warning for parents:
“Parents need to know that Unfriended: Dark Web is the sequel to 2015’s Unfriended. It uses the same everything-happens-via-a-computer execution but has a much darker, more brutal story. Viewers will encounter jump scares and brief but very disturbing images of young women in peril, held captive, and tortured: One is shown to have a chunk of metal wedged into a hole that’s been drilled in her skull. There’s also a lot of death overall: Characters are shot, hanged, pushed in front of trains, and hit by cars. Language includes a few uses of “f–k” and “motherf—-r,” as well as “a–hole,” “ass,” and more. There’s a brief webcam image of a couple having sex (not graphic), and some sex talk is heard. Another brief webcam image shows teens possibly drinking at a party. Many real-life computer apps, websites, and brands are used, including Google, Facebook, Spotify, Wikipedia, Apple computers, and Bitcoin.”
My 24-year-old son would agree that the warning should have been for soft-hearted moms like me too. I spent another sleepless night watching this horror movie.

But it was not the horror of the film that horrified me, it was the echo of Advocate Vibhor Anand’s preposterous warning that a similar thing could have happened to Sushant, that horrified me more.

While we are now totally sick and tired of this CBI-AIIMS hide-and-seek game that looks more fishy to me than the Dark Web itself, we need to get more forewarned about this Dark Web, which is now slowly rising to the surface to infiltrate into our simple, real lives. While Wikipedia very clearly mentions that “the darknet is used for illegal activity such as illegal trade, forums, and media exchange for pedophiles and terrorists”, there is no government regulations on it and can’t be censored.

(Since the darknet is not even a word, I don’t even know if it is proper noun or common noun, or one word, or whatever, I am leaving it in various styles)

There are many different sites on the Dark Web — like blogs run by privacy-conscious individuals, press and whistleblower tip-off pages, forums for freedom fighters and protesters, and marketplaces selling (legal and illegal) products. The Dark Web isn’t illegal — but it can be very dangerous to use if you don’t protect yourself.
Darknet websites are accessible only through networks such as Tor (‘The Onion Routing’ project) and I2P (‘Invisible Internet Project’). Tor browser and Tor-accessible sites are widely used among the darknet users and can be identified by the domain “.onion”. While Tor focuses on providing anonymous access to the Internet, I2P specializes in allowing anonymous hosting of websites. Identities and locations of darknet users stay anonymous and cannot be tracked due to the layered encryption system. The darknet encryption technology routes users’ data through a large number of intermediate servers, which protects the users’ identity and guarantees anonymity. The transmitted information can be decrypted only by a subsequent node in the scheme, which leads to the exit node. The complicated system makes it almost impossible to reproduce the node path and decrypt the information layer by layer. Due to the high level of encryption, websites are not able to track geolocation and IP of their users, and users are not able to get this information about the host. Thus, communication between darknet users is highly encrypted allowing users to talk, blog, and share files confidentially. (From Wikipedia)

With crime is sifting in and out of the Dark Web into our real lives, this portion of the internet that was so long lying dormant, and in its own parlor, cannot be ignored any more. Cyber-crime and social crime are no longer two separate entities. Our law needs to reach out to encompass the dark web into it’s legal arms and hire expert hackers to match the shrewd brains of these killers.
The international law needs to merge with the laws of various countries to be able to identify these criminals, as the internet has no boundaries. The virtual world needs to bind with the real world. It is said that never visit the Dark web. But the dark web is constantly coming in front of us, in the form of movies like this and real life horror like that of SSR.