[gts]

Yes, paedophilia really is such a Big problem; you want to see a study to understand that? are you serious? further to police efforts I would support any independent effort to get these people and hand them over to the police when it comes to this matter.

Paedos will be paedos no matter whether privacy exists or does not exist, and it is not an issue related to privacy and freedom, do not link it as such; freedom ceases to be freedom when it violates another individual's freedom(=abuse or product of abuse) so the abuser has to be stopped from further violating it. As the previous poster said, you could argue around consent and/or having an inclination, but as to the actual abuse taking place there can be no question about it.

In a truly anonymous internet that respects privacy, it would be up to individuals to find, isolate and condemn these people, much like Anonymous did in 2011.

Abuse of freedom and privacy can only lead to and justify not having any freedom and privacy, it fuels the whole pro Big Brother argument; if there was a way to demonstrate that Internet self regulation/regulation by the people works, then this would be a major blow to all kinds of 'higher authority' monitoring and fear mongering.