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'''Kidflix''' was a [[Child Pornography|child pornography]] website that was active from 2021 until its shutdown in March 2025. Using the [[Wikipedia:Tor_(network)|Tor network]], it allowed users to maintain a level of anonymity while accessing its content. At the time of its closure, the platform hosted around 91,000 unique videos with a cumulative duration of 6,288 hours. From April 2022 to March 2025, around 1.8 million users worldwide logged into the site.<ref name="europol">[https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-crackdown-kidflix-major-child-sexual-exploitation-platform-almost-two-million-users Europol: Global crackdown on Kidflix, a major child sexual exploitation platform with almost two million users]</ref> | '''Kidflix''' was a [[Child Pornography|child pornography]] website that was active from 2021 until its shutdown in March 2025. Using the [[Wikipedia:Tor_(network)|Tor network]], it allowed users to maintain a level of anonymity while accessing its content. At the time of its closure, the platform hosted around 91,000 unique videos with a cumulative duration of 6,288 hours. From April 2022 to March 2025, around 1.8 million users worldwide logged into the site.<ref name="europol">[https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-crackdown-kidflix-major-child-sexual-exploitation-platform-almost-two-million-users Europol: Global crackdown on Kidflix, a major child sexual exploitation platform with almost two million users]</ref> | ||
==Shutdown== | |||
The shutdown operation, referred to as '''Operation Stream''', was handled by [[Wikipedia:Europol|Europol]], and represented the organization's largest initiative, involving the collaboration of 38 countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.<ref name="europol"/> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Websites]] | [[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Websites]] | ||
Revision as of 10:30, 3 March 2026
Kidflix was a child pornography website that was active from 2021 until its shutdown in March 2025. Using the Tor network, it allowed users to maintain a level of anonymity while accessing its content. At the time of its closure, the platform hosted around 91,000 unique videos with a cumulative duration of 6,288 hours. From April 2022 to March 2025, around 1.8 million users worldwide logged into the site.[1]
Shutdown
The shutdown operation, referred to as Operation Stream, was handled by Europol, and represented the organization's largest initiative, involving the collaboration of 38 countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.[1]