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The podcast Kill List doesn’t reflect badly on the internet – it reflects badly on us | John Naughton

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A secret website that journalist and author Carl Miller discovered on the dark web, the slimy underbelly of the internet.

The site essentially runs what one might call an “assassination market” or a murder-for-hire service.

Customers identify and profile someone whom they wish to have killed and pay (in bitcoin, natch).

An estranged husband paid to have his wife kidnapped, tortured and injected with heroin until she agreed to return to him.

Welcome to the worst devils of our nature, says author.

He says it says something about modern masculinity and what happens when people lose control of a partner.