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[–] LemsGhost@lemmy.ml 104 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 🀦

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 76 points 2 weeks ago

Why did I zoom in and read the chat?

"...you-can-eat boyffet" is absolutely horrendous.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 63 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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?

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Really made it easier by having font size so large.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

He just can't imagine having his privacy violated

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 56 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Morbid curiosity is going to drive me to read these and tbh I really don't want to.

[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] majster@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"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

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

-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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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 weeks ago

i get the joke but i dislike the joke bc ive got the ick after reading that chat

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

harrydubois666 is giving depressed alcoholic communists a bad name

[–] distal@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

what have they done to our favorite alcoholic suicidal cop

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

disgusting

golden corral

🀒

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah holy shit, disgusting

[–] distal@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that just old-school IRC via a web ui?

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

HOLY SHIT: https://lifeline.chat/

LifeLine is a real-time support chat for people who are attracted to children. Whether you're a boylover or a girllover, or someone who knows one, we're here to listen.

This is like a pedo support group.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe an inappropriate take but on a personal level there's something very depressing about finally being online enough to learn a url like this.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I really suspected it to be an IRC hosting service and the chat to be some hidden room on the server. Not for the entire domain to be dedicated to pedophiles.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I was about to comment that clicking that just clicking this link seems like a recipe to get someone sent to your door, but on second thought this guy's just doing it out in plain view so who knows

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was morbidly curious, but you don't have to peel back very much to see that the "support group" framing is kayfabe. A support group would be talking about therapy or coping mechanisms for their attraction, this forum appears to be reveling in it.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

DO NOT CLICK on this link people.

No joke

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Running out of β€˜what’ emojis to describe the variety of what level shit I read

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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

Harry Dubois is one of the usernames 🀑

Wow this whole thing is yucky. 🀒

[–] sagedemage@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Pedophiles deserve the death penalty including the Epstein class.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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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[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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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