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The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett
3.0

On the internet nobody knows you are a dog. Sometimes this is an excellent thing, and sometimes not so much, but it is a fact leveraged by many of the internet's subcultures investigated investigated in this book. The polite Silk Road vendor was quite an insight into a trust-less market place, and the drawing out of some similarities of experiences online between the EDL and antifa people, despite very different political stances, was fascinating. This is a good starting point for an introduction to the "digital underworld" (as the subtitle has it) that most of us will have an inkling that this is happening.