The Prime Minister targeted the search engine giant after it emerged that the killers of five-year-old April Jones and 12-year-old Tia Sharp had viewed child abuse online before the murders. Mr Clarke claimed the Prime Minister’s plans to target Google would do no more than block “perfectly legal porn.” One such site is Freenet, which was created by Ian Clarke to allow freedom of speech around the globe. It exists to allow anonymous communication and let people in oppressive regimes get around government censorship.īut child abusers and other criminals use it for their own ends.

But even 10 years ago, it was estimated to be up to 550 times bigger than the “commonly defined world wide web”. The scale of the dark net – also called the “deep web” – is not known. With names like “Tiny Model Princess” and “Paedophile Paradise” they blatantly describe what is on offer, saying “contains images of child abuse” or “photos and videos of children aged five to 17”. Links are posted to pages that promise access to the most vile images available. Welcome to the dark net – a lawless place where anything goes.Įncrypted, anonymous and legal, it is a vast network where child abuse is openly offered alongside terrorist handbooks, class A narcotics, contract killings and instructions on how to make bombs. Hidden from the world, it is the disturbing home of online child abuse images that makes a mockery of David Cameron’s insistence Google should stamp it out.

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