The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

Academic paper analyzing the technosolutionist aspect of the development of the contact tracing app in the Netherlands

Russia’s media censor, Roskomnadzor, has blocked thousands of local websites that use an encryption feature from the U.S. company Cloudflare, designed to improve privacy and security for internet users.

A good analysis of the federation of Bluesky compared to Mastodon