Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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-square262fedilinkarrow-up1711arrow-down119
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minus-squareMora@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up127·edit-22 days agoIn Austria the ‘pedophile hunters’ targeted gay men who were not pedophiles. If ‘pedophile hunters’ would actually care about their cause, they would storm the next church…
minus-squareUshmel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·2 days agoThis is obviously where this is going and it’s a big part why they’re obsessed with labeling people “groomers.”
minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·2 days agoThe Church actually has a lower rate of child abuse than public schools…
In Austria the ‘pedophile hunters’ targeted gay men who were not pedophiles. If ‘pedophile hunters’ would actually care about their cause, they would storm the next church…
This is obviously where this is going and it’s a big part why they’re obsessed with labeling people “groomers.”
The Church actually has a lower rate of child abuse than public schools…