A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

  • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The internet was a mistake. It also further proves my point that the internet and social media are, in fact, Fermi’s Great Filter.

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      8 months ago

      The Internet only serves to highlight the existence of terrors that before we could be ignorant of. We were always like this.

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        8 months ago

        You can make the argument that the internet facilitated communication between all these fringe groups. Yes, we may have always been this way but with the internet people can find each other on a global scale much easier than at anytime in our previous history.

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          8 months ago

          It doesn’t change who they are at their core tho. They’re just organized now. But at their core, people were the same then as now. The Internet is just digitalized socialization. Society is the problem, not the tool used to communicate.

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      8 months ago

      Fucking hell. Makes me want to hunt these evil fucks down. Why the fuck we had to evolve to cause each other so much pain and misery I cannot fathom.