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.
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?
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
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.
Morbid curiosity is going to drive me to read these and tbh I really don’t want to.
It’s relatively benign, no morbid details. They do al talk about CPR a little bit, mostly how someone got caught by having it as their phone back ground.
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.
Someone I know would say « anything appearing on your screen in public is fair game. »
Wow this whole thing is yucky. 🤢
Running out of ‘what’ emojis to describe the variety of what level shit I read
Is that just old-school IRC via a web ui?
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.
DO NOT CLICK on this link people.
No joke
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.
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.
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
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.
Found these posts on a linked site: https://www.annabelleigh.net/messages/745291.htm
https://www.annabelleigh.net/messages/745299.htm
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.
disgusting
golden corral
🤢
Yeah holy shit, disgusting
harrydubois666 is giving depressed alcoholic communists a bad name
Harry DuBois is many people. He could be a fascist, a moralist, an anarchist, an upstanding union man. Whatever you want to project.
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?
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.
He just can’t imagine having his privacy violated
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.
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
i get the joke but i dislike the joke bc ive got the ick after reading that chat
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
Why did I zoom in and read the chat?
“…you-can-eat boyffet” is absolutely horrendous.
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 🤦
