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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: chuck allen

oops, I thought I corrected it, oh well.


41 posted on 04/15/2025 1:50:59 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: mass55th

Predators are scum, but it would be easy to target an innocent person and hard for an innocent person to clear his name once a rumor got started.


44 posted on 04/15/2025 2:46:51 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: mcenedo
The term for this is "old school".

From before the time when people believed the life-lie that some "authority" would protect them and their families as promised.

45 posted on 04/15/2025 2:55:14 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Responsibility2nd

#5 ...
Your Noob got his post Zotted...
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Who was It and what did it say?
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If it’s not disgusting.


46 posted on 04/15/2025 2:57:11 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: metmom

Cool!!!
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My question exactly.
You Answered, Yes.


47 posted on 04/15/2025 2:59:04 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Big Red Badger; metmom; Jane Long; Bikkuri

His comment led me to think he was upset at pedophiles being hunted. That’s why I questioned him in my post 7.

Anwhoo.... He’s been fed to the Viking Kitties.

https://freerepublic.com/~lovingliberty1965/

And lookie at all the recent posts that have been zotted? I’ve not been on this thread here at the end to know who posted them and what they said. They could have been by the zotted also.

I don’t know, but I do see the mods have been busy here.


48 posted on 04/15/2025 3:06:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yuppers Amigo...
That account-ZOTTED.


49 posted on 04/15/2025 3:50:43 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: lovingliberty1965; 2ndDivisionVet; 50mm; Arrowhead1952; Old Sarge; shibumi; .44 Special; 230FMJ; ...


*** H/T to Responsibility2nd ***


Retread (suspected Kalipornia Spammer)
appears to have gotten in trouble again.
Lost SOMEWHERE in the deleted posts
is something that gave lovingliberty1965
the shock of his life.. again..
(we suspect)

















*** click the name to check ***



































50 posted on 04/15/2025 8:27:02 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: mcenedo

I mean it doesn’t bother me really.


51 posted on 04/15/2025 8:50:17 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: Bikkuri; Responsibility2nd

Dang! I completely missed this one. Trollery in spades!

And it looks like this one may have been defending pedos? (Eeewww.) I can’t really tell with all of the zotted posts. This one must have been a real doozy.

Good job!


52 posted on 04/15/2025 9:22:18 PM PDT by Allegra (Strategic initiatives )
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To: Bikkuri

I just love the smell of ozone in the morning


53 posted on 04/17/2025 11:22:11 AM PDT by snuffy smiff (Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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