• distal@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Someone I know would say « anything appearing on your screen in public is fair game. »

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      12 days ago

      No, death is too good for them. 3-foot steel cube with a hole for kibble dispensing, a gerbil-style water dispenser, and a small hole for pooping. Suspended by cable over the grand canyon.

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      Friendly reminder that the word “pedophile” is heavily misused. What it actually means is people unfortunate enough to be attracted to children, which may or may not lead in them following it and abusing kids.

      If you will ever see someone hanging out in a pedophile online group, there’s a large chance it’s a support community for people who specifically do not abuse children. This is a good practice generally approved by psychotherapists. In this case, doxxing them or calling for violence against them will do more harm than good.

      That said, if someone actually hints on any form of child abuse, consumes, shares, or especially produces CSAM - they must be violently stopped on sight.

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    Someone who can really get into the network and did -cough- what that pink power ranger did -cough- should look into this Lifeline and the “FreeSpirits” organization and yknow… do what that ranger did.

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    Seems he has since been fired.

    Found a different article:

    Thornton’s attorney, Allison Hart, has strongly denied that her client engaged in any illegal activity and offered an explanation for why he was in the chatroom.

    Hart told TMZ that Thornton became involved in suicide prevention advocacy after losing a close family member to suicide two years ago and had spent time in online forums supporting people experiencing suicidal thoughts.

    According to his attorney, Thornton regularly visited the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline website, but was sent a wrong link and ended up in a chatroom for people with thoughts of pedophilia.

    Yeah that explains why the guy talking about being on a plane (presumably him) is talking about how bold it is of him and how it’s his middle finger to do it in public. Because everyone is so ashamed of chatting to suicidal people on IRC right?

    I don’t get why someone would do this. Was it a power thing? Flexing on people? Well he just found out he didn’t have the power to do this and keep his job. He can probably keep doing this on planes if he wants since it isn’t illegal but he’ll have to do it without his well paying job.

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      Who among us can say they haven’t been sent a link to the wrong chatroom by accident and then posted there like a regular?

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        And it accidentally opened in the Tor browser, which is definitely set as their default web browser because they are a simply privacy cautious nerd.

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    12 days ago

    It shows how normal it is to him that he’s fine doing it in public. At least this pedo is an idiot and got caught

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    Does this dude not know if he does this shit in coach on an airplane, there are two other people within viewing and slapping distance of him, minimum, at all times? Or is he some lead-headed boomer fuck who doesn’t have the capacity to understand or care about that?

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      And then that’s not even getting into the absolute what-the-fuckery of the pedophilia and the community built around it, hooooly shit. This dude needs to serve his prison sentence on the surface of the moon.

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      I said the same thing in a cross post, like what the fuck is this guy thinking opening his paedo shit up in a crowded, public place? Like you have your two immediate neighbors who can easily glance, but also the two or three people behind who can easily spy directly without being noticed.

      But again: I’m glad he did it and got caught. What a dumbass though.

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        Not even just a crowded place… a crowded place where you’re usually bored as shit and looking for things to entertain yourself.

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      12 days ago

      Harry DuBois is many people. He could be a fascist, a moralist, an anarchist, an upstanding union man. Whatever you want to project.

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      That was the first post I saw when opening Lemmy while thinking, on the train, that I should buy a privacy screen protector for my phone

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    This is the problem when you create a system where the ultra powerful such as presidents, billionaires, and game show announcers are empowered to feel that they’re above the law.