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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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      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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      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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    Here’s all the chat pictures that aren’t in the OP.

    This pedo openly and brazenly did this in public and got exactly what he deserved

    Edit: Just noticed he is using Tor to hang out with his pedophile buddies. His lawyer saying he was there by accident, yeah sure lol.

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      He is NicloasB77 . Saying he is on a plane now and his buddy warning him to not get caught like that guy who browsed pedo stuff on the tube. Then he replied saying they will only see sequences of chat lines on screen.

      What’s worse, if I read it right, is him saying he will go next week somewhere where he could meet kids named Abdulz , Khan , Fatima… My guess is Pakistan or some 3rd world country where this shit sadly happens… parents and trafficking gangs in 3rd world sell them to wealthy foreigners… it is an evil sad reality we wish to pretend that it doesn’t happen.

      Also mentioned visiting some Coral kids place yesterday with his wife. The Feds can verify his flight logs against he was saying in chat…

      It’s super disgusting this rich multimillionare 62 year old is doing this with his fame and wealth.

      He is not a curious teenager who browsed the darkweb once and clicked on some links.
      It’s impossible to sympathize with this, and I expect it to be a lot worse than a pedochat. I fully suspect he raped kids before and continues to do so considering his fame, multimillions wealth, and travelling lifestyle.

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      I tried to read the url I think the domain is [redacted] which is apparently an sort of anynomous alcoholic/narcotics self help chatroom but for pedophiles, I guess some of them just use it to meet like minded people instead of actually trying change

      nvm, further looking it seems to be just a pedo meet website

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      “harrydubois666 disconnected”

      damn, chatroom too nasty even for the great tequila sunshine… thats as un-disco as you can get. Hope you catch the perp mr Costeau

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      boasts to other users about how cool he is playing with fire by having a pedo chatroom up for anyone to see out in public on a plane

      ruins his entire career because someone took pictures of it

      LMAOOOOO

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      reading the first image I was a bit like, maybe it was just one pervert posting, not sure if I could accuse someone of anything for just being in a chatroom with a pervert.

      then I went further and discovered he was the pervert that was driving the pedo chat.

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        It’s relatively benign, no morbid details. They do talk about CP a little bit, mostly how someone got caught by having it as their phone back ground.

        Edit: some one mentioned elsewhere that this is <redacted> which is a support chat for people struggling with pedophilia.

        Edit edit: nm, they literally link to sites claiming legal pedophilia. It looks like the wrong kind of support

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          Just from the one picture I did read I could’ve told you that it’s definitely not a support chat for predators.

          The “all-you-can-eat boyffet” line is pretty fucking awful.

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          There is one very creepy line of red text though…I think its about actual child abuse

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      What if someone sees a random sequence of lines on a screen.

      I’m completely at a loss at how someone could be so stupid and not notice the person setting next to him taking pictures of his screen. I’m frankly willing to hear an argument that this was all faked with photoshop.

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      So, to be clear, I am not doubting that he did this, but these pictures are very suspicious. The interface is too clean and perfectly contrasted across the entire screen which is extremely rare for cameras to be able to do, especially at a distance and an off angle. Some of the text has a weird perspective. This honestly looks like it might be fake.

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          Have you ever taken a picture of a screen before? It’s usually pretty washed out or has issues with focus, etc. Somehow these pictures are both perfectly sharp and have no brightness or contrast issues. In particular to get the screen brightness correct it almost always means getting exposure wrong for everything else but everything around the laptop looks fine still

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    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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    When you’re a part of the parasitic elite with access to plenty of hot women and guys, but even that’s not good enough for you 🤦

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

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      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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    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.

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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