Dark-Web-Journal Entry #6

In class we watched a documentary titled Inside the Dark Web.The documentary focused on how government and corporations infiltrate your online information and use it for their benefit.This documentary surprised me as it wasn't what I was expecting.I imagined a documentary that showed how governments abusing their authority and secretly spying on their own citizens for the majority of the program,but it also showed how corporations sold your online searches to other corporations for a profit.The details of these searches are similar to the product of the company that purchased your records.This surprised me, because corporations working together to accomplish a similar objective is unusual.The documentary also focused on discrete online search engines and websites and how it was used during various different forms of political unrest across very unstable regions or they could be used to purchase illicit substances discretely,without government monitoring.There is an ongoing process where governments are trying to monitor anonymous entities[like Tor],but the process is difficult as many believe it's another way government will extend into the last online stronghold.So were faced with a dilemma,either allow government to monitor everything online(which isn't ideal)or allow people to use anonymous websites freely and possibly allow criminal offenders to operate freely?