I keep seeing videos lately of grown men posing as children online and baiting individuals to public spaces and either assaulting them or recording/exposing them for content. While I don’t mind the idea of a predator being outed, the idea of grown adults posing as children online seems unsavory to me. Especially if their end goal isn’t to protect children, and is to provide content for views.
Obviously, being a child predator is wildly immoral and illegal and their actions are not what’s being debated.
Have any been taken to court? That would seem like an awkward case to make. Among other things, they’d have to prove the victims, who may themselves have no previous charge, meant to attempt what the other side says they were trying to do, all while trying to justify themselves. And in the long term it may be too ugly to not look down on.