Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoOnline ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square342fedilinkarrow-up1774arrow-down119
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minus-squareHulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 days agoHeh seems to me that these pedophile hunters are just violent hateful people who found a way to make their hate and violence appear righteous. There should be no tolerance for vigilante justice in a civilized society.
minus-squareknightmare1147@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days ago“Where [is] evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoAh that’s the thing, we’re not civilized We’re about to have roving gang of Nazi vs pedos! Just attacking each other like crime gangs in the streets. This is what about when young people have no future.
minus-squareHulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoWe’re definately less civilized than we used to be but there’s still some degree of civility.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoWhere is this civilized society at, in the US?
minus-squareHulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoMore democratic areas I’d say.
Heh seems to me that these pedophile hunters are just violent hateful people who found a way to make their hate and violence appear righteous.
There should be no tolerance for vigilante justice in a civilized society.
“Where [is] evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Ah that’s the thing, we’re not civilized
We’re about to have roving gang of Nazi vs pedos! Just attacking each other like crime gangs in the streets.
This is what about when young people have no future.
We’re definately less civilized than we used to be but there’s still some degree of civility.
Where is this civilized society at, in the US?
More democratic areas I’d say.