content: Shutting down the dark net is litterally the same thing as making sites that arent listed by search engines illegal... Granting complete control of the data on the internet to corperations. Which have backdoors the govt has uncontested access to. Bad idea.  No, that's precisely the idea.  Freedom to communicate electronically is 50% of what makes the internet empowering, and encryption is the other half. If they take either of those, the internet becomes about as useful as facebook.  "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."