The intellectual dark web, as it is called, refers to a section of the internet, of contrarians, reactionaries, and free speech advocates who espouse an ideology that is usually divorced from reality and retrograde. With Shapiro, it's hateful Muslim bigotry and incorrect historical knowledge of "western values" and pronoun usage under the guise of "facts over feelings". For Sam Harris, it's debating whether or not Black people are just stupider because of IQ. For Peterson, it's the support of a patriarchal worldview where men dominate women and "cultural marxism", i.e. anything progressive from gay rights to trans rights and so on, is bad because it isn't based on nature, specifically the lobster which has hierarchies.