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[Adamdc]

What did they talk about on Dateline--computer issues or personal (safety) issues? I'm not concerned about the latter. I'm pretty hands-on as a parent.

[ImaNihilist]

What did they talk about on Dateline--computer issues or personal (safety) issues? I'm not concerned about the latter. I'm pretty hands-on as a parent.

They have this group of perverts that sit around ALL DAY and pretend to be little boys and girls in order to lure other perverts into coming over to their house so they can get them on "intent".

As long as you've taught your children that it might be a bad idea to talk to a 32 year old man who's sending you pictures of his genitals and asking you if you want to have sex with a cat, I'd say you're fine.

I ****ing hate that Dateline ****. It's not that I'm a fan of the sick people they trap on the show, far from it. It's how they go about doing it, and the fact that they try to take some kind of moral high ground when the entire thing revolves around TWO people playing into a fantasy. It really bothers me that holds up in court and isn't considered entrapment. Putting it on TV is even worse.

I'd like to think that at any time a person can realize their actions are wrong, and turn away from a situation. A lot of these people are first time offenders. If anything, they are probably more curious than anything else that someone was actually playing into their sexual fantasy. IMO, curiosity should not be the same thing as intent.

If they want to REALLY do something about the problem, they need to teach kids not to be so ****ing stupid. I've always wanted to maybe sit in a chat room and see if I can find one of their dectectives, play into it, and then end up on Datelines How To Catch a Predator, only with a different twist. In my bag of tricks, instead of condoms or some crap like that, I'd show up with a dictionary to beat the **** out of the person for talking like an e-idiot. "how r u? want to haev teh sex?" NO. NOT ACCEPTABLE. Then, when what's his face shows up with my chat log and asks me what I'm doing there, I'd say that I bought a dictionary along with me to beat some sense into this retarded 14yr old girl who's talking like a retard and is dumb enough to invite over someone who claims to be a 32yr old guy. Maybe show up with a fake gun too in the hopes that I can scare her into not being so ****ing stupid.

/end rant