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Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton looking at a 'pedophilia' chatroom while on an airplane (infosec.pub)
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[+] 61 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago

    1 quotation marks are not need in this case. 2 Pedophiles are everywhere. It's just when they are found in Hollywood people say "Hollywood is full of pedophiles" and not "Pedophiles with money, resources, and influence are a dangerous combination"

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    • [–] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    How stupid do you have to be to look at that in public?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    He literally was getting off on it. In the messages he was talking about all people could see was "a screen with a few lines on it" and was telling the other people in the chatroom that he was going to open up a CP Gallery site.

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    • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Found a better pic of the screen. I'm assuming he's the one with the green text..

    https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8c4u0nXx4bEIpwm1lnNH832QGGMdFXpDyzkQgEdtB8w9w-GD6PIjvNPpUnrx3WoOVIqtB7m0uJCnmO69VZCGvjkJswfxpqShzBmeU9vLtlIzpB5qp_I4BbqEr0GaxOvSmJRMiPBfI_gOTpSx7ZgMkeO1phpkSiUAU_pV29X-bP6EvXCNjLxiIQT15MSrAP6nH17FvH7cq8hOzZzSAyHBwOEb8jpqw&q=jim+Thornton+wheel+of+fortune+photo+of+chat+room+on+plane#sv=CAMSVxoyKhBlLUItQzczWkdyNEVETTFNMg5CLUM3M1pHcjRFRE0xTToOWUtlbmlfMlV6V3oyMU0gBCoXCgFzEhBlLUItQzczWkdyNEVETTFNGAEwAUoECAEQAhgHIK-x5f4LSggQAhgBIAIoAQ

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That image suggests that he's some kind of moderator/admin! The chat log says that the same guy talking about chatting "from the sky" also approved a chat message with a link in it.

    Also the pedo excuse of "it's more common than we like to pretend." 🤮

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Wtf is that site that made him so paranoid to be on it? Then brags about the URL hidden while still saying the name of the site in his message along with what I assume is a known CP media site....

    I'm glad it did happen but also... What a fucking idiot. The fact that he is that bold makes me think he has been getting away with this shit for a long time.

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    • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (22 children)

    I zoomed in to see what they are saying and they're mostly talking about names, then one guy says something creepy in the middle about golden corrall. How do they know it's a pedo chatroom? Could it just be some IRC-style chat where someone said something obscene in the middle?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (12 children)

    (in green) Went to Golden Corral for the first time with my dad and his wife yesterday. A nice hangout for kids. Saw a couple cute boys and a hot little girl (...)

    (...)

    (...all-)you-can-eat Boyffet.

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  • [+] -22 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Could be a kid saying that themselves?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Nice try, guy who was in the chat

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    No, I seriously don’t see how that comment could be considered incriminating. That would mean that no adult could ever talk to kids. Which shouldn’t need to be explained just how stupid that is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Mentioning seeing a "hot little girl" who is also a "kid" isn't incriminating? Maybe there's nothing immediately legally-actionable about it, but Wheel of Fortune was absolutely right to give him the ol' heave-ho over it. Best case (for them), it's the grossest sentence ever written. Worst case, there's about to be an investigation that will land him in jail for the rest of his life. Either way, firing him is a reasonable consequence for being odious.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Even in the incredibly unlikely scenario that was written by a child, why is this grown man participating in the conversation?

    Come on, have some common sense. It's quite obvious what's happening here. This is also not the only relevant piece of the transcript.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    prolly from the url plus you could track his user there now

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    My eyes are getting worse, doesn’t it say Lifeline Chat? I would have assumed that was the suicide hotline chat.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    The stupidity to open your pedo chatroom in public while sitting RIGHT NEXT TO OTHER PEOPLE who can definitely see your screen, and with people behind you, who can look directly at what you're typing and reading without even hiding their spying.

    Some next level stupid. But I'm glad he did it. Prick.

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Insane

    "Wait, is that the new guy from Wheel of Fortune?!

    ....

    Is that a pedo chatroom!?!"

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    • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    fucking EWWWW

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Get these fuckers OUT oh my GOD

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    "Starrynightsky" and "nicholasB77" are currently microwaveing their drives and then shredding them and all related hardware

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    [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Harry Dubois, what have you done with Cunno?!

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