GMH: Many hack journalists think the terms “darknet” and “Dark Web” refer to anything bad on the Internet. You can’t have a democracy when all your communications are being intercepted by the government and your private life is being scanned by companies.īrady: The media has portrayed the Dark Web as a pretty sinister place. If Galaxy, being on Tor, had a different character than mainstream social networks, would Tor-users’ creative work also have a different character? It was a question of what the community would produce, as well as a question of wanting to positively contribute to that community, and help it grow in a desirable direction.Īlso, I believe that private communication is an essential human right. GMH: On Galaxy, I was struck by how pleasant the community was, how marked they were by a desire for something better than clear-web social networks like Facebook, which people have very frustrated feelings about. Putting The Torist on the Dark Web helps communicate that. We also wanted to make it clear to contributors that we welcome anonymous contributions. Gehl: We released it on the Dark Web in part because it was born on the Dark Web. In fact, some of the work is quite good.Īmy Brady: Why did you publish The Torist on the Dark Web? But there’s nothing illegal about their complaints. Yes, the pieces share thematic concerns over individual privacy and the consequences of living under government surveillance. Reading through The Torist, you probably won’t find any reasons for why the writers wouldn’t want their identities known.
It features short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction essays by contributors who appear to have submitted work under their real names. That question led to the creation of The Torist, the Dark Web’s first literary magazine. Both fans of literature, Gehl and GMH began to wonder what kind of literary art a Dark-Web community might produce. Before it closed down, Galaxy was the Facebook of the Dark Web, accessible only through Tor, the browser needed to access websites hidden from the regular Internet. Gehl, an associate professor at the University of Utah specializing in communication technology, met a person known only as “GMH” on an anonymous social network called Galaxy.
As of January 2016, it’s also a vehicle for publishing literary magazines. Depending on who you ask, the “Dark Web”-the Internet’s mysterious undercurrent accessible only through specialized software-is either a libertarian utopia or a criminal hellscape run by cryptoanarchists trading stolen bitcoins.
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