Online ‘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. - eviltoast
Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral
www.nytimes.com
With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.
  • boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    What this ultimately amounts to is the worst actors using a blanket justification to carry out revenge fantasies against whatever marginalized group they’re fixated on.

    If you happen to be part of any of these marginalized groups, now would be the time to get armed and get dangerous. It would be great if we lived in a functioning society where this wasn’t necessary, but the failure of so many of our institutions is slowly rewinding our social fabric back to wild west times.