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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. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] Senseless@feddit.org 168 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 100 points 1 week 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...'

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 week ago

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

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago

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).

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] TarantulaFudge@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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