Just to clarify, this isn’t To Catch a Predator, the actual series. It’s one of those amateur stings on Instagram who don’t involve the police in the confrontation and pretend to be heroes for clout.
And these amateurs are incredibly problematic.
Their “work” often results in evidence that is not admissible, the confrontation itself often is done in a way that allows the paedos to counter-sue and get away with things, AND on a number of occasions these groups have harassed innocent bystanders that happened to bear a passing resemblance to the paedo they wanted to catch.
“Let’s go online and catch some paedos” sounds good and all, and I’m all for protecting children, going on vigilante paedo hunts isn’t the answer. and it quickly turns non-fun when you realise that by baiting and confronting a paedo, you have:
- not helped catching or exposing them
- now that you confronted them, they’ll up their game and be harder to catch next time
- anything you could do to a paedo that one considers fun, the law considers illegal (even though there are software to permanently modify PDF files…)
- anything you did is most likely useless to the police
even though there are software to permanently modify PDF files…
What does this mean?
It was a joke. I was implying that to some extent it’s acceptable to permanently modify (say, by removing the offending body parts) PDF files (peadophiles). Which is obviously a joke, don’t go around cutting off the cojones of suspected paedos because you WILL get in trouble.
So glad that PEDOnald pardoned all these criminals.
We really should have our tax dollars spent on having ICE tackling gardeners and disappearing them while these right wing terrorists/influencers are out there trying to pick up underage girls.
Easily
