This is going to be goood
Can he do a White House sting next?
Reddit r/games thread about this is overwhelmingly shitting on Hansen and defending Roblox. Unsurprising from the home of r/jailbait I guess
It’s because Reddit is making pedofiles great again and you will be shadow banned if you disagree
What blows my mind is the child predation isn’t even half the problem with Roblox. Gambling with real cash, child labor, black market for digital content.
It’s an absolutely dumpster fire of problems, and yet balatro is the one the EU cracks down on.
What’s better than hiring some third world worker to do the work for 1/6 the price? Getting a child to do it for free!
Shitting on Hansen I can understand, but defending Roblox? It’s no grand conspiracy that it’s riddled with predators, it’s an actual fact, so that’s kinda disgusting.
A bigger problem is the predatory behavior of the company that owns Roblox. You can teach kids how to wall themselves off from the pedos on that site but you can’t really protect them from the company that runs it. Short of keeping them off it all together… Which is what I do.
Hansen is generally more of a grifter these days to be fair. And even back in the heyday of the show, it had a lot of issues both legal and just moral. I really feel weird about this kind of predator catching stuff being made as entertainment.
I think it brings awareness. Which is needed to change the culture. I do think it’s weird to gain financially but I don’t think it’s the only “benefit” of making a show.
Historically the kind of awareness it brings is less constructive information on the problems with these websites, and more on the line of unhelpful paranoia.
Interesting. Where did you find this information?
it’s televised vigilante justice.
I don’t use reddit, but tbf roblox is what you make of it. My kids enjoy the heck out of it. There’s the same issues with most games - exploiting the users for profits with micro transactions or whatever and the dangers of lousy people in chat. The real issue is that Roblox has become a mecca for kids and that attracts more of the worst aspects I mentioned.
I hate to say it but parents gotta parent. Roblox offers decent parental controls. I employed them and relaxed them as my kids got older, and check in on what they’re playing. Problem is parents treat games like babysitters and then get upset when their sitter hiring policy is leaving the front door open and let anybody walk in.
In defense of the generally indefensible masses of reddit, Hansen is hardly a figure above criticism. Fetishizing vigilante justice, embracing of the far-right, his emphasis on spectacle without regard for the community, that time where they more or less killed a guy… Child molesters are horrible (tho why we keep electing them, I’ll never know), but we don’t need to hail and laud someone as our champion just because they agree.
Hansen’s documentary has an opportunity to shed light on online grooming as a pervasive problem endemic to all online spaces but instead appears to further his usual moral panic about how there’s people lurking behind the bushes, waiting to nab your children while they do the things they enjoy. His productions have never been better than any other schlock reality television, but with a veneer of legitimacy from his LARPing with law enforcement. Targeting a popular piece of pop culture, instead of an expose on say grooming rings on discord or the constant abuses of children from religious institutions as facets of the ever-increasing access children have to unmoderated online interaction seems to be just as morally vapid as his work has ever been.
I don’t know about defending Roblox, but Hansen is really not a good guy either. There is no hero in this story.
Also I’d have to guess that a non insignificant number of Redditors would be targets of Hansen if he does this. Just going off of history and patterns
I got banned from r/gaming when I talked shit about pedos.
So yes. You are right.
Do they even have enough paddy wagons to haul away all the predators they’re sure to catch?
Why don’t you just take a seat over there?
Where?
Roblox as a platform? OK, whatever, new audience I guess. Have at it
Wait
Oh no, I’ve misunderstood
And yet EU wants to expose everyone with backdoors with ChatControl
The swan song of the to catch a predator series
Could we please do away with this guy already!!?? I am so tired of seeing this man everywhere on social media as well as on memes!!! There’s got to be another way to express this besides using a man’s likeness. :-(
I don’t understand why you’d want that but ok I guess. Kinda feel like a catholic priest or a youth pastor wrote this
This man was relevant at one time because he was an investigative journalist, but these days, he seems to oversaturate the media whenever issues like this arise. I think he is passe, and I think it’s time for them to get a new mascot for fighting stuff like this! He is also used in a lot of memes across the internet, and it seems as if he is everywhere!!! :-(
Chris Hansen? The guy who got caught cheating on his wife Chris Hansen?
https://people.com/celebrity/chris-hansen-caught-cheating-on-his-wife/
oh no, that’s… not diddling kids.
wish conservatives would actually care about kids being molested instead of cosplaying concern.
was it with a kid? then no one cares
Chris Hansen married someone named Chris Hansen? What are the odds!
