Child Abuse and Statutory Rape on ArmageddonMUD

You pedo apologists need to take that shit somewhere else and stop standing up for a bunch of mother fucking perverts in hopes that Nyr might kick you some magicker karma.

Some of you are a bunch of damn sycophantic tools.

Some of you neck beards have been arguing for the better part of a day over whether or not that kinda shit is illegal, and now that I've demonstrated that you are wrong as hell by directly quoting legislaton, I predict that some of you freaks will spit the GDB dick out of your mouth long enough to still try to argue about it.

I am not a pedo apologist. FAR FROM IT. But I cannot see any possible way in the [nether]world that you can expect people to be held responsible for information that you did not provide them.

On 'To Catch a Predator,' the decoys make sure to repeat and stress that they are underage in real life, so when the would-be molesters show up to meet these supposed adolescents, it can be proven that they knew full-well that they were chatting up and attempting to meet a minor for sex.

My friend Megan and I used to "cyber" people when we were twelve, because we were curious about it and amused by it. We would sit there and engage in sexual roleplay with strangers, and we would giggle about it like the preteen girls we were. I'm sure if most of those people had known we were twelve, they would have been out of there fast. Sure, maybe some perverts would have typed those things anyway. The fact of the matter is that I will never know because I didn't tell anyone that I was twelve. I don't hold what happened against any of those guys because they didn't know how old I was. It wasn't their fault; it's the friggin' Internet where anybody can pretend to be anybody.

I understand your being nervous about there potentially being a minor on the other side of your RP interactions, and I also understand why those concerns might pull you away from engaging in any sexual scenes. That's perfectly reasonable, and you're not the only one who feels that way. But that doesn't mean that other people can be held responsible for engaging in ADULT roleplay with people whom they believe to be fellow ADULTS, even if one of those people is secretly a kid. Again, anonymity is inherent to interactions that happen over the Internet, and in those kinds of situations, it can be troublesome. I just don't see what you expect anyone to DO about it.

What bothers me is that a lot of people who I think are pretty smart have attacked me, defended simulated sex acts with minors, etc, when it took me five minutes of googling to find a piece of legislation confirming what I've said.

I mean, come on guys... You can do better than that.

I have a better point. Kronibas, contact the authorities and if they give you even an ounce of serious consideration and bother contacting the ARM staff to investigate. I will take back my statement that this is throwing shit against the wall until something sticks.

We're all waiting. Contact the authorities or you're letting the next 14 year old get horribly abused by knowing pedos on ARM who definitely know those people are underage and are typing at them, knowingly.

EDIT - The server has a runlog that goes back X amount of time depending on how they store it so all the 'evidence' you'd need would be on their own server even!

I don't pretend to know about the legal side of any of this, but the law you posted specifically states that the offending media has to be a visual depiction.