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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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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

They're going to attack LGBT people and say they're pedos for being LGBT.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

probably under the guise of attacking lgbtq+ group.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Or very likely make mistakes. Vigilantes is nice in comic books and movies, in real life it turns terrible very quickly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sad because actual paedos gonna be like "who, not me, someone cried wolf on me!".... As someone who was trafficked and abused with my sister and then even after she got out, I've heard them laugh about paedos caught in the news and act like they're not exactly that. Meanwhile the people who actually hurt me stayed or died free because you also see on the news how false accusations ruin innocent people's lives, so it feels like what we say as real victims not only doesn't matter but will be ignored because sexism is back full-swing and they prefer us women to be seen and not heard once again like the old days. I wish patriarchal societies weren't hell-bent on using and ending women and children to justify their means of global blackmail control.