Lol he's comparing registering for possessing CP to registering for pissing in public. Clearly the mindset of someone regretful of their actions.
>They were teenagers not children, and only a few years younger than me.

Do I even need to comment?
>we'll see what twitter thinks in regards to what you're doing here.
Yea, I wonder what Xitter will think in regards to someone admitting to viewing CP.
- Ito admits to signing up for a Japanese website in 2003 that featured "Japanese school girl teenagers, um, 14, 15, 16 year olds."
- "This happened when I was a kid, basically... I was like 19, 20 years old, like a teenager, fresh adult myself."
- Ito downloaded content from this site over a period of about six months.
- He acknowledges the content was CP: "It was technically child porn. That's the bottom line. It was child porn because it was girls who were underage, and I was an adult at the time."
- "Me being 19 20 years old, I just didn't think of it. I didn't think ahead. I didn't think of the consequences. I didn't think of the possibilities. You know, to me, it was just pussy of girls my age or slightly younger."
- In 2009, ICE (not FBI) visited his home, seized their belongings, and a year later, he was charged and convicted for "receipt" of CSAM: "They charged me with, uh, not possession because I don't think they found anything, but they knew that I had bought it. So that was enough to charge me by that point. So they charged me with the receipt."
- "I'm not a pedophile. I... you know, I just was into girls my age back then."
I usually cut a lot of slack to "I was 19 and she was 16" or "We met on chat and I didn't know she was 15 until I caught feelings".
That's not what happened here. This wasn't some "I didn't realize how old she was"
This nigga paid for a subscription to 14 year old asian girls doing god knows what/having god knows what done to them. He deliberately sought this out, and this how he was got.
Just some unintentional viewing, especially TYOL 200X, would have been something a PD could get you out of if the DA even bothered pressing charges "it wasn't my computer your honor, dynamic IP/someone else on my network". Again, that's assuming they would even bother for just simple "receiving". Even if it was just a sketchy overseas porn site "I had no idea your honor, I didn't think to check the model release part of the site".
No, this nigga got got because he paid for a subscription (or otherwise had slam-dunk chain-of-custody proof [that is, sting operation] that the person downloading the CP was this guy) and more importantly, that site advertised that it had underaged content.
Which at the time in Japan adult content with 14yo+ models would have grey-area legal.
Legal to possess (depending on content; solo vids were fine, if she's being fucked... I forget what the legal dodge was... this is part of the reason Bukkake took off around that time.), legal to sell (with significant restrictions about where you could sell it and genitals had be blurred.), but technically illegal to produce. (tl;dr iirc the dodge was the girl couldn't be paid upfront "I'm just filming in this direction and if a 16 year old schoolgirl gets naked and starts playing with herself in view of my camera well that's just something I couldn't do anything to stop. I'll pay her a fee so she doesn't make me turn over all my video because she was in the way of what I was filming")
Also,
@Rux I hate to give a furfag any leniancy but:
Pissing in public can be cited as indecent exposure depending on justisdiction and if the Judge/DA had it in for you could get you on the SO registry for public urination(think: Pervert pissing in full few of kids/"I wasn't jacking off your honor I was just peeing!")
I went to college in one of those places with a "Public Urination/Indecent Exposure" joint item on the police citation,and it was a common joke at my college; variations on "If the cops catch you pissing, might as well just start jacking it, its the same charge".
But again, you'd have to REALLY piss off someone to actually get on the registry for just pissing in an alley.
You are not a hero, nobody thinks you are a hero, nobody will ever think you are a hero, and at some point you will stop thinking you are a hero yourself.
And then maybe an hero himself.