In our humble journey into the depths of the 'darknet', we garnered much support for this operation and also encountered much resistance. At first most of the Anons never knew much about the 'darknet'. The only knowledge about underground was from the June 1st, 2011 article by Adrian Chen regarding "The Silk Road". On October 6th, 2011 some of us Anon were doing research into encryption and security. The 'darknet' sites of TOR, I2P, and Freenode peaked our interest. We were aware that, TOR and I2P where originally designed to protect individuals from the oppressive governments of China, Iran and protect Free Speech. What we discovered was quite the opposite. An growing and large of community of pedophiles was abusing such systems for personal profit. To demonstrate this, The Hidden Wiki's "hidden" section, the 'Hard Candy' is stated to be: This wiki page discusses resources specifically for people who are attracted to children. This can include everything from discussion groups to ostensibly legal images of children in dresses to full-out child pornography. The term children here refers to children and teenagers. To explain how popular this community of pedophiles is. The total page views of the Hidden Wiki 'Hard Candy' section as of October 20th, 2011 is a total 2,055,701. The total view count of main index (non-pedophilia content) of The Hidden Wiki was 2,677,430 times
