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The Disturbing Rise of Amateur Predator-Hunting Stings
- fortran77 4y agoThe interesting thing is it has long been "amateurs." The government has long relied on non-government organizations staffed by "volunteers" to sit in chat rooms and try to lure (mostly) men into chatting with fake underage people. And nobody at the FBI wonders about what type of people volunteer for this stuff? Or if the methods are fair and legal? Groups like the "Innocent Lives Foundation" or "Perverted Justice" are considered reasonable sources to the FBI. I'm glad the New Yorker is started to realize there may be something wrong here, at least starting with the most obvious, egregious cases.