This chilling investigation into how easy it is to hire a contract killer on the dark web shows exactly why we should pull the plug on the internet for good
You know the internet, right? The greatest unregulated mass experiment on humanity in history? I think it’s time we pulled the plug. Tell everyone it was a nice idea, we gave it a good run but the results are in and – no. Turns out we are best off without a window into the collective soul after all.
And so to How to Hire a Hitman (Channel 4), a two-part investigation by the radio presenter and true-crime vlogger Yinka Bokinni into how easy it is to hire a contract killer on the dark web. She begins by scrolling through the results of a hack into Besa Mafia’s site which, for suitable remuneration in bitcoin, offers services from arson to sniper shootings to be carried out by Albanian gangsters. It uncovers thousands of emails arranging hundreds of hits. “Is murder for hire really just a click away?” Bokinni asks, promising a level of sensationalism that luckily the programme doesn’t follow through on. “If so – are any of us safe?” Dun-dun-Duuun!
