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Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral
NYSlime ^ | Aric Toler and Neil Bedi

Posted on 04/15/2025 11:33:58 AM PDT by mcenedo

A VIGILANTE PHENOMENON has been playing out on the open web for almost a decade: Content creators in the U.S. pose as minors on dating apps and websites, then target the people who message them. Many of these vigilantes, commonly known as pedophile hunters, were inspired by “To Catch a Predator,” a popular television series that ran until 2007. The “hunters” have copied the show’s format, exposing their targets on social media.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pedophile
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To: mcenedo

These gangs are not going after pedos, they are hired by older women to go after men who want to date younger women of legal age

This gang was hired by an older woman to attack a 22yo who was dating a woman of 18

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna186502

And this will get more and more common as white women get older and single and will be jealous of men wanting to date and marry younger women who are not crazy, there is already a texas congressman who, pressured by his wife, wants to raise the texas age of consent to 25


21 posted on 04/15/2025 11:58:46 AM PDT by lovingliberty1965
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To: nickcarraway
I seem them getting the wrong name or something and attacking the wrong person.

There have already been murders and suicides over people being wrongly accused of being pedophiles.

I guess this is a reflection of our justice system not handling this issue well.

Yup. When some perv can diddle a child and just get a few month's jail sentence, people are probably going to get a little frustrated.
22 posted on 04/15/2025 12:17:27 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: mcenedo

I don’t have a problem with this.


23 posted on 04/15/2025 12:26:50 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I think the pedo hunting hits a little close to home at the Slime.


24 posted on 04/15/2025 12:27:47 PM PDT by mcenedo (lying liberal media, our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

>> Did they mention a bag limit and do you have to buy tags?

Nah, they’re classed as varmints, no restrictions.


25 posted on 04/15/2025 12:29:18 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Can you use game calls or bait to draw a pedo in? You could market Dylan Mulvaney calls or Pete Buttigieg calls!


26 posted on 04/15/2025 12:57:17 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Responsibility2nd
I’m not sure what you mean by that comment, noobie.

When you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, the one that suddenly yelps is the one who got hit.

27 posted on 04/15/2025 1:05:17 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Oh God forbid white men defend themselves instead of kneeling to the 3rd world savages who beat them up


28 posted on 04/15/2025 1:13:27 PM PDT by lovingliberty1965
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To: mcenedo

30, Model of 1906”, or just M1906. The .30-03 case was modified to have a slightly shorter neck to fire a spitzer flat-based 150-grain (9.72 g) bullet that had a ballistic coefficient (G1 BC) of approximately 0.405, a muzzle velocity of 2,700 ft/s (820 m/s), and a muzzle energy of 2,429 ft⋅lbf (3,293 J). I kind of dig on them joules when it comes to pedophiles.


29 posted on 04/15/2025 1:13:30 PM PDT by kawhill ( The truly horrific part? Yes. He drowned himself in a bowl of soup. How does one...? How indeed)
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To: mcenedo

All predators should be eliminated.


30 posted on 04/15/2025 1:16:34 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mcenedo

Protect Pedos? Insanity.


31 posted on 04/15/2025 1:17:10 PM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: tballard56

CECOT should open up the la Estados Unidos wing. That is taking out the trash.


32 posted on 04/15/2025 1:19:03 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: mcenedo

Check their basements for missing children.


33 posted on 04/15/2025 1:19:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Steely Tom

There is already a push in mental health circles to destigmatize pedophilia, the preferred name now is “minor attracted person” or M.A.P.


34 posted on 04/15/2025 1:27:40 PM PDT by kalee
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To: DouglasKC

Early erotica experience shapes a person for life? Who knew playboys from the 60’s made so many boys grow up to be hetero!


35 posted on 04/15/2025 1:27:40 PM PDT by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

$20 a scrodum.


37 posted on 04/15/2025 1:38:54 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: BigFreakinToad

“$20 a scrodum.” That’s a damn sight better than any coon hide will sell for here.


38 posted on 04/15/2025 1:45:26 PM PDT by kawhill ( The truly horrific part? Yes. He drowned himself in a bowl of soup. How does one...? How indeed)
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To: kawhill

Feral hogs here in Texas at one time, were paying out $20 for an ear, so I figure a pedo should bring about the same.


39 posted on 04/15/2025 1:47:49 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: BigFreakinToad

Scrotum no d, t.


40 posted on 04/15/2025 1:49:56 PM PDT by chuck allen
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