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Speaking of ways to - rightly or wrongly - veer off on a tangent, and convince large numbers of people that the anti-Big Brother side is unhinged...

A better counter argument to "catch the pedo" is to bring up cases of creeps who were insiders - law officers, or just techies with access - and used the "well-intended" tech to get at their victims.

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> A better counter argument to "catch the pedo" is to bring up cases of creeps who were insiders - law officers

Certainly. You mean like that time an Israeli Cyber Directorate division chief fled Nevada for Israel after being investigated for soliciting a minor for sexual purposes?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-21/ty-article/.p...

https://archive.is/kNYUo

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