A former member of the community, not extremely active on GBAtemp but known for contributions to several projects on the 3DS hacking scene, Thomas Edvalson aka 'Cruel', has recently received a 20 year jail sentence for supposedly hosting a child porn site (although he firmly denied it).

Thomas Scot Edvalson, 28, appeared to be providing a website where other users could download images of child porn, according to a press release form the District Attorney’s Office. The site came complete with an online guide detailing how to use the dark web to set up a website for trading pictures of child sexual abuse.

Source: Gwinnett Daily Post
A thread was started on GBAtemp to discuss the issue a couple of months ago, before the final judgement was rendered. At the time our decision was to lock the thread up as it began to heavily derail. Some members and visitors took this as a 'cover up' and wondered why we didn't ban this guy's user account on GBAtemp.

We had long discussions in the staff forum and decided to wait for the final verdict (the appeal that is) before doing anything, thereby letting justice do its work. We banned this person from our forums immediately after we heard the final judgement and by the looks of it he won't be around again for a while. Since then, there hasn't been any new threads about the story but if there had been one, we would have allowed it for sure.

At this point we are wondering why anyone would think we are 'covering' this up? Why would we even need to? It's not like people don't know what happened already. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in this thread.

Furthermore, there is an ongoing story concerning another person, it's been posted on a Reddit thread (edit: now removed, but you can see screenshots here) and, again, we certainly won't prevent you from discussing it wherever you want just as long as you stay civil.

We at GBAtemp value freedom of speech above all, but within the boundaries of the law. If you think someone is guilty of a crime it is your duty to report it to the relevant authorities (not the GBAtemp admins, I mean the police). But otherwise let justice do its job. We do not believe that witch hunts have their place on GBAtemp.


The staff

 

[Alkéryn]

Not banning him would have allowed to speak on his own behalf which would be a valid point.


Exactly. Calling this and that a sexual orientation is nonsensical.


It's not a sexual orientation. It's a mental illness, a disorder.


Now you're playing the card "It's not their fault."


Not an orientation.


And you're at it defending pedos.


No, you're not against pedos. You've proved countless times you support pedos.


A ha! And so this is why you defend pedos.

I said pedo ≠ rapist
i defend pedophiles
i do not defend rapist

it is like i say i defend gay people
and then you say i defend rapist because gays could rape mens
those things are totaly different things but you are just being a moron

 

[spotanjo3]

I hope that he is telling you the truth.

 

[Arck]

if i said that, it is because one of my best friend is a pedophile

if he wasn't arrested yet, I guess he'll be soon now

 

[osm70]

Actually, they aren't saying it SHOULD BE accepted. They are saying it IS.

 

[SomecallmeBerto]

I believe you made the right choice in waiting for the legal system to do it's thing and making your decision based on that.

 

[Alkéryn]

No i don't say it should be accepted
I say that the majority of peodophile should be able to get help without risking to go in jail without even having comited a crime just for being pedophiles
I do support pedophiles
but i do not support sex between adults and underage

I just say that pedophiles should be helped instead of being persecuted since most of them aren't rapist
of course pedophiles who commit rape or had sex with an underage should go to jail or even worse

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Actually, they aren't saying it SHOULD BE accepted. They are saying it IS.

Whether it's technically a sexual orientation or not, it doesn't give them a free pass to claim it should be normalised and legal to rape children or look up child pornography. The website Salon tried to defend a pedo in order to normalise it but thankfully they eventually removed that shit.

 

[Alkéryn]

basically i support pedophiles as long as they do not commit crime or do not plan to

 

[Minox]

What the fuck is wrong with you?! You're saying that pedophilia should be accepted as a sexual orientation and you know damn well what this means, adults would get to rape children as legal as it could get.

You're a sick fuck, Alkéryn. I'm completely disgusted by you.

P.S. I don't care if this gets me banned.

Stop putting words in his mouth. He's saying it is a sexual attraction, not that it is something that should be accepted as something normal.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

I do support pedophiles

And there you go, people. @Alkéryn admits it.

 

[Alkéryn]

Whether it's technically a sexual orientation or not, it doesn't give them a free pass to claim it should be normalised and legal to rape children or look up child pornography. The website Salon tried to defend a pedo in order to normalise it but thankfully they eventually removed that shit.

Again i'm not okay with them having sex with underage
I just say that as long as they do not commit unmoral act they shouldn't be persecuted and should instead be helped

 

[Deleted User]

No i don't say it should be accepted
I say that the majority of peodophile should be able to get help without risking to go in jail without even having comited a crime just for being pedophiles
I do support pedophiles
but i do not support sex between adults and underage

I just say that pedophiles should be helped instead of being persecuted since most of them aren't rapist
of course pedophiles who commit rape or had sex with an underage should go to jail or even worse

I would honestly just stop mate, that hole that you're digging yourself into is getting awfully deep.....

 

[osm70]

And there you go, people. @Alkéryn admits it.

Admits? He never denied it.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Stop putting words in his mouth. He's saying it is a sexual attraction, not that it is something that should be accepted as something normal.

I do support pedophiles

This says it all about him, Minox.

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

Actually, what's funny is that people on reddit compare that to Dozozo being convicted of 'sexual tourism' with a 15-year old. And then, people say bleh, that's disgusting as long as one is minor and the other not. But there's a slight problem. In every single high school, couples become unhealthy because one of the two lovers turn 18 and the other is still 17.5? I find this pretty illogical. That would mean that if you turn 18 while in couple with another minor, you are a disgusting pedophile, and if your bf/gf turns 18, you're victim of child abuse. You know? The candidate who just got first at the French Presidential Election, Emmanuel Macron, is 39. His wife is 64. Yes, 64. And he met her at the age of 16. She was his French teacher and was 41 at that time.

EDIT: I'm 16.

 

[NEP]

Even if he didn't upload the images himself, he did set up the automated system that took the upload and posted it for everyone to see. And he is legally responsible for everything that automated system does. Just like how if you booby trap your house and someone comes in and gets killed, you're responsible for their death even if you're not there. It would be a huge issue if you could get away with posting illegal content if you simply had a python script grab it and post it for you.

 

[Alkéryn]

This says it all about him, Minox.

Yeah but i didn't said i support rapist
I said pedophile ≠ rapist

I support pedophile, and think they should be helped
and i said many time that any one who rape or had sex with an underage or commit anything imoral they shouldn't be persecuted
as long as they didn't do anything bad i'm okay with them

 

[Ritsuki]

The problem is that pedos being pedos will eventually act on it so it's pointless to try and defend like @Alkéryn is trying to. Disgusting.

Even if I totally understand your point of view, this means that we would also have to kill psychopaths, schizophrenics, etc... and if we can decide to kill them because of the risk, then we could use the same logic for poor people, or to specific ethnicities for example. And it would be Minority Report (or Psycho Pass for anime lovers, which was clearly inspired by minority report, but hey I'm getting side tracked here) all the way.

 

[Alkéryn]

if he wasn't arrested yet, I guess he'll be soon now

No because i'm the only one knowing about him
i will never reveal is identity
and he will never ever do harm to anyone, instead he choosed to abstain for the rest of his life

 

[Yil]

If we can illegalize or better render Prostitution and Drug useless due to shifted phisiology through some socondary system.