Illicit: The Scope Of How The Internet Is Used For Illegal Activity

The internet has brought with it a tremendous amount of great advances in the way we're able to communicate and learn about what's going on in the other parts of the world. The internet has allowed us the freedom to have this world of information at our fingertips. It was to be expected that with such a great advance in our culture some bad would come along as well. While the average internet user is online for normal things like surfing, online game play, and social networking there is a vast amount of users online for the sole purpose of carrying on illicit activity. With all the great achievements the Internet allows comes with it a handful of things we wish the Internet would've never been invented for. Rule 34, if you can think it it exists in all shapes and forms. The Internet mirrors the real world providing a venue for thieves, pedophiles and drug addicts. With our personal information required on the majority of websites we provide the prize to an army of hackers who turn our information into stolen money and goods. Illegal drugs can be purchased on sites that can prove deadly buyers. "The International Narcotics Control Board also described North America as continuing to be "the world's largest illicit drug market" in 2010; parts of Europe as the homes of industrial scale cannabis factories; and growing poppy cultivation in West Asia." Illegal Drugs Sold Online Via Social Media: Huffington Post