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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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  • A [email protected]

    Just prove you're not a pedo and they will leave you alone.

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      Oh I get it. So this stuff gets pushed on left wing spaces. Then the left wing adopts this ethos where they say "pedo hunters aren't good" then the right goes "oh you're all pedophiles" and then the divide is bigger

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      Poorly regulated pedo hunters that can end up ruining genuine law enforcement efforts at catching pedos aren't good.

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        There's a reason an insane number of the people who publicly attack pedophillia are in fact pedophiles.

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        I assumed it was because they are so sloppy,
        they use it in any disagreement "you're either with us or you're a pedophile !"
        much in the same way we often here "don't call everyone a Nazi"
        Do we see many Nazi calling each other Nazi in anger and in a derogatory manner ?

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          they mistaken quite a few people.

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          • omegalemmy@discuss.onlineO [email protected]

            Oh. They're just gonna call people pedo and attack them even though they're not. It's extremely obvious.

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            probably under the guise of attacking lgbtq+ group.

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            • M [email protected]

              Oh I get it. So this stuff gets pushed on left wing spaces. Then the left wing adopts this ethos where they say "pedo hunters aren't good" then the right goes "oh you're all pedophiles" and then the divide is bigger

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              Seems like a lot of these pedo hunters end up being pedos themselves

              Lots of projection going on here

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              • comraderachel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneC [email protected]

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                Reminder this fuckface ruined the investigation into Onision for his show.

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                • ? Guest

                  Predator catching channels are important. Should not be censored. Just cause a few channel might had been acting fascist like towards minorities with intention to degrade trans people. Which from many of the channels I seen, they seem to be strictly going after adults going after minors on the internet. If any are intentionally going after just trans people or other minorities just because, they use it as an excuse to harass it's rare.

                  Are there even any actual specific channels and videos that even point out that something like this is even happening in these predator catching movements?

                  I will meet you some of you here. If they are not working with law enforcement and are just harassing people, that is not ok. I'm against this native that's going against predator catching channels as a whole because it is so out of touch with reality. Instead of calling a whole movement violent, call out the 'specific" offending channel. If you can't do that, what does that say about your narative.

                  Anyone that thinks that they should all* be censored, get ready to censor gaming channels and played heavily while you're at it. Plenty of gamers online said some rascist, and homophobic things. I'm not changing my mind on this.

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                  Better rules for them to follow might be a compromise. And harsh penalties for failing to follow them as it can mess up real police investigations too.

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                  • E [email protected]

                    shit gonna morph into persecuting queer people real quick.

                    And then when it’s pointed out a bunch of mfs are gonna say. “Why are you AFRAID?? WhAt aN odd tHinG to sAy!! they’re only going after bad people!”

                    like shit brother. right on brother. Im sorry. I guess all those 1920’s lynch mobs were only going after criminals too then 🤷‍♂️. Matter of fact I bet no innocent people were hurt, and it wasn’t because of the color of their skin at all. Only criminals! /s

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                    I have heard people saying panto should be 18+ because it has a man dressed as a woman. Your ideology is a fucking joke.

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                      I had a friend who was visiting Florida, and this vigilante group from some church setup a Grindr account to catch gay men. They made a profile of a guy in his 20s, had convos and planned to meet, then asked him to talk on some other platform, where his profile said he was underage. Keep in mind, this is just a fictional person. And the Florida court loves to toss LGBT in jail, so beware out there.

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                        So Conservative Pedo apologists are going to be using this to hunt Lgbtq people and the current culture war of "this is child indoctrination" despite everyone knowing that's not how this works is open season pass.

                        Really makes me regret not arming myself two years ago

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                        • K [email protected]

                          Poorly regulated pedo hunters that can end up ruining genuine law enforcement efforts at catching pedos aren't good.

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                          The bigger problem is that genuine law enforcement efforts are discouraged from actually catching pedophiles because they often end up being constituents of those same cops, either politically or socially. It's either a priest, a super PAC donor, or another cop on the other end of that investigation.

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                            They should be stalking the Repuglicans in Washington. Make a ton of bounty I bet

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                              I had a friend who was visiting Florida, and this vigilante group from some church setup a Grindr account to catch gay men. They made a profile of a guy in his 20s, had convos and planned to meet, then asked him to talk on some other platform, where his profile said he was underage. Keep in mind, this is just a fictional person. And the Florida court loves to toss LGBT in jail, so beware out there.

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                              Solution bait the baiters

                              Practical solution, abandon all social interactions with strangers

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                                Only if you're rich. I doubt these fuck sticks are going after rich people

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                                No of course not, then they'd actually face consequences for it.

                                (Yes, I know there are people who do this to those who aren't rich and still face consequences but I get the feeling that's more of "the exception rather than the rule")

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                                  There are cases of arsonist fire fighters which is an even stronger analogy.

                                  Those who claim to fight fires are often the ones setting them, so they can be seen as the heroes who extinguish them.

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                                  Fuck the Fire Department!

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                                  • M [email protected]

                                    Oh I get it. So this stuff gets pushed on left wing spaces. Then the left wing adopts this ethos where they say "pedo hunters aren't good" then the right goes "oh you're all pedophiles" and then the divide is bigger

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                                    That's not it. The right will lie about anything. If we change our beliefs to prevent the right from lying about us we would never have to stop changing our beliefs.

                                    This is more about right wing militias hunting lqtb+ people under the guise of pedophilia.

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                                    • I [email protected]

                                      Remember when Musk did it si callously

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                                      He definitely has some skeletons in his closet, he's got to have done something

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                                      • H [email protected]

                                        Sadly there are a lot of weirdos who think ANY AGE GAP AT ALL is basically the same as pedophilia

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                                        People get called things over fanfics and stuff. Innocent people have plenty to be afraid of

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                                          I had a friend who was visiting Florida, and this vigilante group from some church setup a Grindr account to catch gay men. They made a profile of a guy in his 20s, had convos and planned to meet, then asked him to talk on some other platform, where his profile said he was underage. Keep in mind, this is just a fictional person. And the Florida court loves to toss LGBT in jail, so beware out there.

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                                          You can use that against them, say they are in the church right now

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