Comment on 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.

• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ‘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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• quack@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• afronaut@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, there’s this case.

  brusselstimes.com/…/fake-pedophile-hunter-convict…

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  • KneeTitts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ya it does seem to be a comings 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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    • TarantulaFudge@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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