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Tea to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago

Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

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Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

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    I wouldn’t even be surprised if a bunch of them are pedophiles themselves. Projection and such.

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      ‘I sit online all day pretending to be a teen girl and getting into dirty chats with strangers, it’s OK though because I’m doing it to stop the creeps…’

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      There’s been a ton in the UK outed as predators themselves. It’s projection.

    • @afronaut@slrpnk.net
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      Well, there’s this case.

      https://www.brusselstimes.com/373981/fake-pedophile-hunter-convicted-of-child-pornography

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        ya it does seem to be coming from a group of people who are overly obsessed with CP, like way more than the average person is… might be a bit of projection on their part methinks

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          Reminds me of Republicans questioning Ketanji Brown literally the only thing they asked about her was about how hard she was on pedophiles. The level of projection was palpable. Basically confirmed that all Republicans are predators.

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        Seeing the Brussels Times, I thought it was going to be about this guy: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Vervloesem (sorry no english link).

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      I have this questionable material for use in my honey traps.

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      100%

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