Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days 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-square280fedilinkarrow-up1225arrow-down16
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minus-squareOmegaLemmy@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·4 days agoOh. They’re just gonna call people pedo and attack them even though they’re not. It’s extremely obvious.
minus-squareFermionWrangler@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoThey’re going to attack LGBT people and say they’re pedos for being LGBT.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days agoprobably under the guise of attacking lgbtq+ group.
minus-squareours@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoOr very likely make mistakes. Vigilantes is nice in comic books and movies, in real life it turns terrible very quickly.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down12·4 days agoJust prove you’re not a pedo and they will leave you alone.
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoGood luck proving you’re not anything to an angry mob.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 days agoI never use /s. /s is the training wheels of online comments. /s is for cowards. Ride or die baby! If anyone takes me seriously, it’s their own damn fault.
minus-squareJerb322@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoHa, rock on with your bad self.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoReminder this fuckface ruined the investigation into Onision for his show.
Oh. They’re just gonna call people pedo and attack them even though they’re not. It’s extremely obvious.
They’re going to attack LGBT people and say they’re pedos for being LGBT.
probably under the guise of attacking lgbtq+ group.
Or very likely make mistakes. Vigilantes is nice in comic books and movies, in real life it turns terrible very quickly.
Just prove you’re not a pedo and they will leave you alone.
Good luck proving you’re not anything to an angry mob.
You forgot the /s…
I never use /s. /s is the training wheels of online comments. /s is for cowards. Ride or die baby!
If anyone takes me seriously, it’s their own damn fault.
https://xkcd.com/1984/
Ha, rock on with your bad self.
Reminder this fuckface ruined the investigation into Onision for his show.