Tea to [email protected]English • 5 months agoOnline ‘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.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square335fedilinkarrow-up1776
arrow-up1776external-linkOnline ‘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.www.nytimes.comTea to [email protected]English • 5 months agomessage-square335fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoIt’s usually done by posing as a teenager in chats, then they get confronted at the meet-up. Pretty solid way to identify the right person.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•5 months ago Pretty solid way to identify the right person. And that’s why entrapment is a legally sanctioned investigation strategy for law enforcement. Oh, wait, it isn’t, because of all the abuses that resulted from its use.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoThese folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up. A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile. Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult. And the perpetrators think this is justice.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-25 months agoAh, catch a predator style. Gotcha. Removed my comment because it was wrong. So far anyway.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoI mean, I don’t know that ALL of them work that way, but the ones I’ve seen do. I have mixed feelings about the whole scenario.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•5 months agoI’m not a fan of vigilantism or mob justice save for the removal of objectively destructive and tyrannical leadership. Too many ways to get it wrong.
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It’s usually done by posing as a teenager in chats, then they get confronted at the meet-up.
Pretty solid way to identify the right person.
And that’s why entrapment is a legally sanctioned investigation strategy for law enforcement.
Oh, wait, it isn’t, because of all the abuses that resulted from its use.
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These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.
A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile.
Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.
And the perpetrators think this is justice.
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Ah, catch a predator style. Gotcha. Removed my comment because it was wrong. So far anyway.
I mean, I don’t know that ALL of them work that way, but the ones I’ve seen do. I have mixed feelings about the whole scenario.
I’m not a fan of vigilantism or mob justice save for the removal of objectively destructive and tyrannical leadership. Too many ways to get it wrong.