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

 

[Lycan911]

Why broadcast this? Who cares?

Here's your answer:

I decided to post this thread as soon as I heard someone was accusing us to 'cover' the story, that is downright ridiculous.

 

[DeslotlCL]

Why broadcast this? Who cares?

Apparently the community does care, since people are still discussing this.

 

[Wiisel]

-Problem here is that for some reason, pedophilia, unlike other words that end with -philia, is used to describe the attraction AND having intercourse with minors. For example, let's take hemophilia. Same suffix. But I'm pretty sure that it doesn't describe people that bang blood.

Pedophillia:
n.
1900, from Greek pais (genitive paidos) "child" (see pedo- ) + philos"loving" see -phile )

Hemophilia:
n.
1854 fromGreek haima "blood" (see -emia ) + philia "to love" (see -philia ), here witha sense of "tendency to."

Necrophilia .......... theres a pattern but I dont see pitch forks at the ready for hemophiliacs maybe thats just because they get too messy after the first prod.

 

[Thunder Kai]

Didn't realize we were a news outlet :/
Lemme call up CNN

 

[DavidKang]

This is a surprise. I worked on Korean translations on freeshop. I want to believe that he did nothing wrong. But if there's nothing he did wrong, the court wouldn't have made that sentence, right? Let's just see how this rolls...

 

[Ericthegreat]

I really don't think this needs to be on the front page, makes the whole community look bad.

 

[sarkwalvein]

I really don't think this needs to be on the front page, makes the whole community look bad.

I think the community need to look as what it is, specially in controversial cases.
Honesty is paramount.
So stating that some news were true, and explaining how you dealt with it is important for me to consider the site trustable.
Of course, IMHO.

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If Japan age of consent is 13 years old, is that allowed here?
Would be dumb to ban someone here for having 13 y/o gf.

What...?

Different kettle of fish. Two totally different cultures at play with that one.

Just some homework, and I want to know what the level of awareness of this is in the world.
What is the age of consent in each of the following regions?
America:
Canada:
UK:
Germany:
France:
Spain:
Mexico:
Argentina:
Brazil:
etc:

PS: I find that the age of consent is stupidly low in most places, nobody would consider ok a 20+ guy to have a 13-14yo gf, even if it was the age of consent.

 

[gamefan5]

I think the community need to look as what it is, specially in controversial cases.
Honesty is paramount.
So stating that some news were true, and explaining how you dealt with it is important for me to consider the site trustable.
Of course, IMHO.

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Just some homework, and I want to know what the level of awareness of this is in the world.
What is the age of consent in each of the following regions?
America:
Canada:
UK:
Germany:
France:
Spain:
Mexico:
Argentina:
Brazil:
etc:

PS: I find that the age of consent is stupidly low in most places, nobody would consider ok a 20+ guy to have a 13-14yo gf, even if it was the age of consent.

Depends on country, culture and customs. You would be surprised.

 

[Minox]

If Japan age of consent is 13 years old, is that allowed here?
Would be dumb to ban someone here for having 13 y/o gf.

Please do tell where in Japan that is the law? Because from what I gather pretty much all prefectures set the age of consent much higher.

And no, we are not here to be the police. If you see something unlawful you should report that to the authorities.

 

[DeslotlCL]

I think the community need to look as what it is, specially in controversial cases.
Honesty is paramount.
So stating that some news were true, and explaining how you dealt with it is important for me to consider the site trustable.
Of course, IMHO.

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Just some homework, and I want to know what the level of awareness of this is in the world.
What is the age of consent in each of the following regions?
America:
Canada:
UK:
Germany:
France:
Spain:
Mexico:
Argentina:
Brazil:
etc:

PS: I find that the age of consent is stupidly low in most places, nobody would consider ok a 20+ guy to have a 13-14yo gf, even if it was the age of consent.

Yup, it is stupidly low... Here in Chile the legal age of consent is 14 years old. Didn't know about it until now, didn't want to know either.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

I think the community need to look as what it is, specially in controversial cases.
Honesty is paramount.
So stating that some news were true, and explaining how you dealt with it is important for me to consider the site trustable.
Of course, IMHO.

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Just some homework, and I want to know what the level of awareness of this is in the world.
What is the age of consent in each of the following regions?
America:
Canada:
UK:
Germany:
France:
Spain:
Mexico:
Argentina:
Brazil:
etc:

PS: I find that the age of consent is stupidly low in most places, nobody would consider ok a 20+ guy to have a 13-14yo gf, even if it was the age of consent.

Dutch here, age of consent is 16.

 

[RivenMain]

If we don't enforce the news for the community and those who hold reputable value then we allow actions to be tolerable.
I actually had dated a 18 year old girl when I was 13. And She was all I thought about. However I understand how easily it is to be manipulated and do things and pleasure them. Or forcefulness it's either them or me etc. These are hard forced decisions and their minds are still growing they don't understand what's really going on. They just think wow this hot dude thinks im attractive I'll do anythign for senpai etc.

She had a lot of in life problems though and she wouldn't of thought it would of been ok had it not happened to her before. And she eventually tried to forget we were a thing because it was an ambarasment to her friends. However The whole topicof this guy running cp websites and such is disgusting and there's a difference between someone who just turned 18 and a 22 yr old who has had plenty of time to grow into the real world.

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

Years ago the German government tried to introduce internet censorship in order "to protect children". Some politicians were already hinting at the fact that the same blocking system could be used to ban far right websites.

I don't know anything about the case, so I withhold judgement.

 

[Kioku]

I think the community need to look as what it is, specially in controversial cases.
Honesty is paramount.
So stating that some news were true, and explaining how you dealt with it is important for me to consider the site trustable.
Of course, IMHO.

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Just some homework, and I want to know what the level of awareness of this is in the world.
What is the age of consent in each of the following regions?
America:
Canada:
UK:
Germany:
France:
Spain:
Mexico:
Argentina:
Brazil:
etc:

PS: I find that the age of consent is stupidly low in most places, nobody would consider ok a 20+ guy to have a 13-14yo gf, even if it was the age of consent.

In some places the age of consent is low. In some places people marry their daughters off as young as 12..

 

[Greymane]

PS: I find that the age of consent is stupidly low in most places, nobody would consider ok a 20+ guy to have a 13-14yo gf, even if it was the age of consent.

For a few tribes in Africa/rain forest it goes even lower, 10/11 if i remember right.
And some religions allow sex with a girl when she has had her first period, so it can even go lower.
But we might be striving to much from the topic here, but i will leave that up to the mods.

And i will withhold judgement since i haven't realy followed the happenings, and thus have not the necessary information for it at this time.

 

[Bigkuhuna24]

This site is tainted... I think this thread needs to close.. any one with morals knows that... but who Is it for me to say.. I hope someday the fbi shows up and catches all the pedos on here... ban me if you want i speak the truth

 

[Wiisel]

What is the age of consent in each of the following regions?
America:
Canada:
UK:
Germany:
France:
Spain:
Mexico:
Argentina:
Brazil:
etc:

"The second-highest age of consent is 20 in South Korea, while the majority of other countries have an Age of Consent between 16 and 18. The lowest Age of Consent in the world is 11, in Nigeria. The age of consent is 12 in the Philippines and Angola, and 13 in Burkina Faso, Comoros, Niger, and Japan."

https://www.ageofconsent.net/highest-and-lowest

 

[DeslotlCL]

This site is tainted... I think this thread needs to close.. any one with morals knows that... but who Is it for me to say.. I hope someday the fbi shows up and catches all the pedos on here... ban me if you want i speak the truth

I think the fbi is busy dealing with piracy stuff, you know, since the fbi needs the help of the cia to do the job, it may take some time to catch them up, if you know what i mean of course.

 

[RivenMain]

I think the fbi is busy dealing with piracy stuff, you know, since the fbi needs the help of the cia to do the job, it may take some time to catch them up, if you know what i mean of course.

Well now they could buy information from isp's so that can open up quite a bit of potential. Definitely counteracts the 4th ammendment

 

[Wiisel]

It's morally wrong how people that accept an age of consent as an excuse to take advantage and fuck kids in some backwater shitholes.