: 6 Background Īs a hidden service, Lolita City operated through the. onion pseudo top-level domain and could be accessed only via the Tor network. Like adult pornography sites, Lolita City featured and promoted specific models whom fans could follow.
Some of the photographers were professionals, others were hobbyists. The site included softcore and hardcore images, and the subjects ranged from near-newborns and toddlers to 17-year-olds and included both boys and girls. As of June 2013, the website hosted about 1.4 million pictures. 2011 anti-child porn operation by Anonymous Videos had been available on the site since November 2012. In October 2011, the hacktivist collective Anonymous launched 'Operation Darknet', in an attempt to disrupt the activities of child porn sites accessed through hidden services. Anonymous published in a pastebin link what it claimed were the user names of 1,589 members of Lolita City, including membership time, and number of images uploaded.
