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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When they go after the wrong person, yes. When they decide to both be the police, judge and executioner, yes.
But if the judiciary system doesn't do it's work, what do you expect.
I can assure you that the judiciary system in my country does work. It's just that these people either a. just want to beat someone up and need an excuse, or b. don't agree with our laws and think it should be prison time for a 18 year old who wants to date a 16 year old, or a 21 year old who wants to date a 17 year old.
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Really good point and in cases like this we should all be a lot more concerned with people who seem obsessive about a given subject. It's not a coincidence that so many crackpot Q-anon "save the children from the demon vampires" nutcases were actually themselves pedos who were caught, or that Q-anon STARTED on a pedophile message board.
or that Q-anon STARTED on a pedophile message board.
Come again now?
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Children can't consent. Teenagers fucking is without consent. Their brains, on the average, are not capable of making that level of decision.
But that doesn't make it illegal.
The issue here is that most countries define the age of consent differently. I think we can agree that when a 16 year old agrees to sexual contact with another 16 year old, the dynamic is different than if they agree to it with a 40 year old. Absolutely. But that does not mean that the 16 year old doesnt understand what they are doing.
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Exactly. Vigilante justice is not the solution here, it's only going to get a lot of people hurt.
Especially when there are legitimate routes to volunteer under police guidance and jurisdiction. Join one of those groups instead, and let the legal system jail them.
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In UNRELATED NEWS in Free Republican States Trans and Gay people are Legally PEDOPHILES!
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Great. Just dump anyone you dislike as a "pedophile" and then it's a free for all.
These people may be awful and frequently deranged but there is a sick efficiency to their tactics:
Step 1. Pick an issue that everyone agrees with.
Step 2. Claim anyone you don't like is against it.
Doesn't get much simpler than that, as dirty tricks go.
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Great. Just dump anyone you dislike as a "pedophile" and then it's a free for all.
They are already doing that shit.
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I’m going to be honest, I’m suspicious of every single ‘pedophile hunter’. They are going after a demographic that people will not rush to defend, even if innocent.
Also, these ‘hunters’ probably have something shady going on in their own lives, and this is some form of projection that they also profit off of.
Normal healthy people don't plan to commit violent offenses on other people, unless there is a direct connection to the 3rd parties actions. Hunting people they have no connection to for fame and fortune is sickening.
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or that Q-anon STARTED on a pedophile message board.
Come again now?
8-chan was a "less moderated" version of 4-chan where the founders of Q-anon got started, it was a notorious forum for trading child abuse material.
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Great. Just dump anyone you dislike as a "pedophile" and then it's a free for all.
Hmm, I seem to recall Trump being a pedophile.
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I wouldn't even be surprised if most of them are pedophiles themselves.
I have this questionable material for use in my honey traps.
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Not advocating for all this, but if they really cared, couldn't they just run down the registered sex offender list and start with the multiple convictions?
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Great. Just dump anyone you dislike as a "pedophile" and then it's a free for all.
When AI can create any image or video based on another person with their perfect face and voice, besides the scams that will keep increasing, the other great value of the tech is that we going to be able to create any proof and footage we want to incriminate whoever we wish.
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I’m going to be honest, I’m suspicious of every single ‘pedophile hunter’. They are going after a demographic that people will not rush to defend, even if innocent.
Also, these ‘hunters’ probably have something shady going on in their own lives, and this is some form of projection that they also profit off of.
I see it as people wanting to commit righteous violence. People have violent impulses, but we usually control them. Some people with extraordinary violent tendencies go looking for a place where it’s “okay” to let them loose. This is not the only example.
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Hmm, I seem to recall Trump being a pedophile.
They don't actually care about pedophiles; a lot of them are pedophiles
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I’m going to be honest, I’m suspicious of every single ‘pedophile hunter’. They are going after a demographic that people will not rush to defend, even if innocent.
Also, these ‘hunters’ probably have something shady going on in their own lives, and this is some form of projection that they also profit off of.
There may be some angry former victims.
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Normal healthy people don't plan to commit violent offenses on other people, unless there is a direct connection to the 3rd parties actions. Hunting people they have no connection to for fame and fortune is sickening.
There is an excessive usage of the word 'hunting'. What all those people are doing is admitting that they consider people as animals, or an "acceptable" way of harassment. And just like people who where in the kkk they don't care who that person is, but that they're the most vulnerable minority.
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Yes and that's completely fair. It's about the imbalance of power. An 18 y.o. and one day, is exactly the same as they were two days prior.
But the cutoff has to be somewhere, and the guy I was replying to was talking about proper adults and 16 y.o.
That's a highschool sophomore. And I think we'd all agree a sophomore dating a college student would be pretty imbalanced.
And I think we’d all agree a sophomore dating a college student would be pretty imbalanced.
I was a college student at 17, but I think you had a larger age difference in mind. I do think we can all agree there should be laws against adults sexually exploiting teenagers.
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Not advocating for all this, but if they really cared, couldn't they just run down the registered sex offender list and start with the multiple convictions?
couldn’t they just run down the registered sex offender list
The point of their channels is usually to find new predators that haven't been caught, so they can then face legal consequences, (or at least be pushed to stop acting on their desires) rather than to punish people for being pedophiles in general, so it wouldn't really make sense to go after those who were already convicted.
