<p>I am a upperlevel classman living on campus. Earlier today, i was browsing on an imageboard looking at various anime fandrawings. Somehow during my looking about i came across some Ao18+ stuff (searched for it out of curiosity and really didnt like it). As i was about to leave, i clicked on an image by accident (using internet on a tablet is rather difficult).</p>
<p>It turned out to be a very grapic shotacon image (AO18+ except with childern, rather in this case a boy and it was a drawing).</p>
<p>I quickly exited off the site.</p>
<p>I have used this site several times in the past for looking up various fan drawings before. But i have never seen this to this degree before. I also, several yeears ago looked up what shota or even lolicon was so i knew what it was onsight.</p>
<p>It disgusted me.</p>
<p>I decided for the sake of it, to look up wether this stuff was illegal or not. The majority of what i found said it was. Further ddigging found that there is a prevision for it within the child pornography law.</p>
<p>I have decided that in the morning, as it is a bit late atm, that i’m going to report it to authorities. Futhermore i may also inform the uni i attend of it, as doing anything illgal can get your internet priverlages lost.</p>
<p>I am hopping very much not to get in trouble over this. Do you think i will? how should i go about this? Ive made myself very sick over the worrying.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine that you’d get in trouble for reporting it. I would report it to the university, and I’d start by asking for the head librarian and reporting it to him/her.</p>
<p>Another thing is that i have seen it before a couple of years ago when i searched for what it was and when i was a moderator on a form. I just didnt realize how bad this stuff is. It disgusted me then too.</p>
<p>Yes, I would report it. I don’t see how you could get into trouble for that. It is fairly easy to happen upon something on your computer that you weren’t intentionally looking for. You were not seeking out that content.</p>
<p>I didn’t understand a lot of the terms you are using. Am I correct that you stumbled upon some drawings (not photographs of actual people) that you think are child porn? If it is not a university website and you were using personal (not university) equipment, who are you going to report this to?</p>
<p>Personally I’d let it go. Especially if just art sites. If it was actual photos I’d have a totally different opinion. (I don’t know all the terms of the OP either…)</p>
<p>Just to clarify…you clicked on a porn site out of curiosity, recognized it as porn 'cause you’d been to that same porn site before, clicked on to some kiddie porn and are afraid you’ll get caught after realizing kiddie porn is illegal? And since you are afraid of being caught you want to make sure the school knows you clicked on by accident?</p>
<p>You just might want to learn to control your impulses better. If you don’t get in trouble this time (and you probably won’t), please let it be a lesson for you anyway.</p>
<p>It is not illegal, and drawings should never under any circumstances be so. No real children were harmed in the creation of the drawing; it harms nobody and your personal distaste is no reason to start limiting personal freedom of speech. Now, this is not to say such images are not disgusting to me also, but censorship is much, much more so.</p>
<p>Shotacon is Japanese anime pedophilia, lolicon is anime pedophilia with girls (apparently a take on “Lolita”). If these things are legal then I don’t see what reporting it is going to get you. Whether or not they should be legal is a matter for debate, but in as much as they are legal, there is nothing “the authorities” can do with it.</p>
<p>I did decide to report what i saw to the on campus police department. He told me since i just stumbled upon it and didnt constently search for it (in this i mean that constently didnt look at it, numorous websites, etc.) That i would probably be fine and that it was good for me to report it. He sent a note over to the it department about what i found just in case.</p>
<p>I had a pretty much physical break down in his office over it.</p>
<p>Again, anything that a person can create using a pen and paper should never be illegal. Once again, this is a drawing; nobody was harmed in its creation or will be harmed for its existing. The fact that you felt the need to report a DRAWING to the authorities because this FICTIONAL image was personally distasteful to you is downright disturbing and shameful. Perhaps you would be more at home in a fascist state.</p>
how should i go about this? Ive made myself very sick over the worrying.</p>