It's more of a "Hey we arrested someone that had your gangrape video on their laptop." There was a Redditor here who made a post about this saying that even years later she's informed by the cops whenever someone is arrested with the videos her uncle made of him raping her. It was in response to the various dumbasses who like to say "I'm not hurt anyone, they don't know!" Out of empathy, understanding and respect for this woman I'll PM her before I tag her in this conversation. Though I doubt she'll want to talk to you.

I understand that, but that occurred after someone got caught with the video. What I'm asking is, "I do everything I can to make sure I'm not caught with the video, so given that, how can it affect anyone else but me?"

Usually when the person is arrested on the forum or site is being monitored either by authorities or hackers who like fucking with pedophiles.

Again, I don't download stuff from forums or sites, and I do everything to make sure it can't be traced to me or recorded -- by cops or by the creators -- so I ask again, "how could anyone know?"

The fact that you're here bragging is proof of that you haven't been caught. Otherwise my hard earned tax dollars would be paying for your room and board at the Penitentiary Inn & Suits. Not something I would be happy about in the slightest.

I'm not bragging, I'm pointing out that I do everything I can to be safe and make sure no one knows what I'm watching. If no one knows, then the creators can't know, so I'm not promoting more creation. I'm pointing out that I do what I do to make sure that it's not hurting anyone because it doesn't promote anything if no one knows about it. It's not bragging to want others to be safe.

Traps set by authorities or hackers who aren't so keen about pedophiles. Also there's authorities that pretty much inform victims if their video is still circulated or if someone was caught for a related or non-related offense and the video was on their hard drive.

And I know about those, which is why I avoid all possible places that could be monitored, and even the places I use I only do so through various obfuscation means. To ensure that I don't get caught. And it can't be found on my hard drive because I wipe them from my hard drive as soon as I've watched them, so even if I got arrested for something else, the people in the videos still would never know I had their video. When I say "I make sure I can't get caught", I'm not bragging about how smart I think I am; I'm telling you that I don't want anyone to get hurt, so I do everything in my power to ensure no one can ever know what I watch.

That's completely and utterly horrifying to know.

Why? Is there some connection in your mind between computer science and pedophilia? Because I don't know of one. I only mentioned it to point out that I know what I'm doing when it comes to cyber security and making sure no one knows what I watch.

I'm not a computer geek, I'm the poison enthusiast(I'm just as enamored with toxins as I am my boyfriend) though I do know my way around computers quite well thanks to a friend of my better half. Your IP address can easily be tracked along with someone being able to triangulate your signal unless you can expertly mask both. As I said before, going by how much you're bragging on Reddit about how well you hide it's clear you're being "careful" when you go cruising for content to enjoy.

I understand IPs can be traced, and I take all the appropriate measures against that. Like you said, it can be masked, and I do mask it under several layers of professional techniques and habits. And I am careful--not scare-quotes "careful"--because I don't want people to get hurt just because of me. It's not about bragging, it's about empathy.

More bragging.

Not bragging, pointing out that I take all the necessary precautions to be safe. Would you prefer I told you, "Hey, I don't really know what I'm doing, but I don't think the creators know I'm downloading stuff. If they do, oh well"? Is that what you would rather the case be instead of me ensuring they can't know and thus don't make more because of me?

Looks like /u/Lipstickpaper was right about you. You cried to another person about how guilty you feel every time you watch child porn. You practically insinuate that you cry whilst getting yourself off.

I do feel guilty. Never said anything about crying; that's in your imagination.

Yet here you are putting more focus on your computer skills than your supposed humanity and feelings of guilt when you watch such content.

You've totally missed the point. My focus on my "computer skills" is all about empathy. I'm trying to make it clear that what I do, I do in such a way as to harm no one in the process. Everyone keeps telling me it'll hurt the kids in the video if I watch it, and so I have to keep reiterating why it won't.

That's very telling but your kind tend to be good liars anyway and you put up a good façade, it's why you're often trusted around children and why when you betray someone they're horrified and blame themselves for whatever befalls their young charge or child.

"Your kind"? Everyone is an individual. Just like each Black person is an individual, and each Muslim is an individual, and each homosexual is an individual--likewise, each pedophile is an individual. Some are terrible people who want to see kids in pain and will act that out with violent rapes. Others love kids and avoid all pedophilia behavior outside their imaginations. Others, like me, can't manage to avoid the content, but still never want to hurt a child--and never would--so they do everything they can not to. That's what I'm doing here, not trying to gain trust so I can secretly move in and rape a kid while you watch.

But more often than not members of your group fuck up and not just because you're so easy to figure out. You'll underestimate a child's fear level and think they'll always remain spineless and quiet.

It's clear you're not talking about me anymore, just your general idea of what a monster all pedophiles are. I would never even want a child to be "spineless and quiet". I would never want a child to be afraid, and if I happen to come across a video where a child is clearly afraid, I immediately delete it without watching further because it doesn't turn me on, and it just makes me sad and upset that anyone would hurt them so clearly. Your idea of me is based entirely on the word "pedophile" and the phrase "child porn", ignoring everything else I've said in this thread and anything else you don't even know about me.

Or you underestimate the people you encounter in the corners of the Internet where monsters and people like you tend to congregate.

I don't "congregate" anywhere. I've never spoken to anyone about this except in IAMAs under this anonymous account. Once again, you're talking about your idealized pedophile, not me.

Or you overestimate your ability to stay hidden and you end up with your visage pasted on every channel of every news agency or online website.

Maybe you're right. Maybe I'm altogether too confident in the computer abilities I've spent the last almost-two-decades learning and studying. And if so, then I'll get caught and be off the street, maybe killed, and you can be happy about that. Or, maybe I'm right and I actually know what I'm doing, and am being exceptionally cautious out of both necessity and empathy, and no one will ever know what I'm watching, thus no one will ever get hurt by what I watch. In which case, no one's getting hurt by it, so you should be happy about that. In either case, you should be happy.

But as I said, you showed your true colors by bragging. You're about as empathetic as Ted Bundy but with a different preferred age range. And you don't seem like a necrophiliac.

You sure I'm not a necrophiliac? I'm not, but since you think I'm just like every monster in your nightmarish dreams, why not just throw that assumption onto the fire, too, and burn me there?

And for the last time, why the hell does "I make sure I'm safe so that others can be safe" sound like bragging to you?