NBC cares not a whit about your or anybody else’s children. They want ratings — period.
If private individuals have information about criminal activity, of course they should report it to law enforcement.
The question is how active should private citizens be in identifying criminal activity. Does that include setting up a private facility to spend time and money on the net trolling for pervs?
Wouldn’t a better solution be for parents to monitor their children’s internet activities just like they watch them in a public park or at a mall?
I don’t know. I don’t think it is too much to ask for adults to quit using children as sexual toys.
Why not?
Wouldn’t a better solution be for parents to monitor their children’s internet activities just like they watch them in a public park or at a mall?
That would be an additional solution. However, parents can't monitor their children 100% of the time. Some parents are negligent, and the children shouldn't suffer because of that. Even if the parents are not negligent, some children do very foolish things, and unless you lock your children up, they are going to be unsupervised some of the time.
Suggesting that a campaign to encourage parents to monitor their children better will address the problem is extremely naive.
What is wrong with private individuals using their own resources, to take positive and legal steps to identify pedophiles and collect evidence that can put them in jail?