Love the article though more background on the tech for the legally policy wonky SJW mutants would help.
Wikipedia darknet article:
A darknet (or dark net) is an overlay network that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, often using non-standard communications protocols and ports. Two typical darknet types are friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a peer-to-peer connection) and privacy networks such as Tor. The reciprocal term for an encrypted darknet is clearnet or surface web when referring to search engine indexable content.
Some sort of non-standard packets exchanged on non-standard ports, and . . . a magic browser? 
It reminds me of confirming that “the cloud” is just other computers.
