![]() “Then you would have to shut down Royal Mail as well,” he said.įreenet is not the only dark net system. He said even if Cameron’s plans were successful people would “just start mailing CDs to one another”. “And child is information – I know it is also a lot more than that – but to a computer it is just information.” “The internet is fundamentally a system designed to share information. ![]() “You would have to shut down the internet completely. “I just don’t think it is possible,” he said. Mr Clarke feared the Prime Minister’s ideas “won’t stop child in any way”. He warned browsers they face being forced by law to ban searches for illegal images if they refuse to do so voluntarily. “If there was, these people would be going to jail very quickly.”Ĭameron this week accused Google of making money from the circulation of images and videos of child abuse but Google sources insisted no child abuse images can be found through its systems. “It seems bizarre that they claim they are creating a system designed to prevent child that will only find child that is out in the open,” said Mr Clarke. However, internet searches on the larger search engines like Google are estimated to search just 0.03% of the total web pages available. 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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