The dark web can only be accessed through special browsers, which connect to networks that are designed to preserve the anonymity of users and the most popular of those networks is TOR.

Canadian child-protection advocates are urging the administrators of the network that underpins much of the dark web to block access to millions of child-abuse images and the thousands of websites that post them.

They are warning that pedophile material is proliferating on the anonymous web, including tips on how to abuse minors and evade the police, which is jeopardizing the safety of huge numbers of children worldwide.

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a national charity, says that since 2017, it has found almost three million child-abuse images or videos hosted on the dark web.

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