Extending far past the confines of Google and Facebook, there’s a huge, unseen space of the Internet referred to as the Deep Web. This mysterious our on-line world serves as an outlet for nameless communication and was residence to the Silk Road, the web black market infamous for drug trafficking. The intricacies of this alternate Internet caught the eye of most people with the October 2013 arrest of Ross William Ulbricht – the convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused of being ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’, the web pseudonym of the Silk Road creator and operator. Making its World Television Premiere this spring, Deep Web – an EPIX Original Documentary written, directed and produced by Alex Winter (Downloaded) – seeks to unravel this tangled net of secrecy, accusation, and felony exercise, and explores how the result of Ulbricht’s trial will set a essential precedent for the way forward for technological freedom world wide.
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