May 10th, 2016 at 12:31 p.m.
Move over Bruce Wayne, there’s a new vigilante on the Block. But this ain’t Gotham City, and it ain’t no comic book. Anxiety Wars is rapidly rising channel on YouTube that sets up stings to catch sexual predators online.
Unarmed vigilante goes after sexual cyber predators
We’ve all seen Chris Hansen on NBC’s, ‘To Catch a Predator’. Using undercover law enforcement agents they would set up sting operations to catch online sexual predators. The men they would capture would Exchange in graphic sexual chats with the knowledge the other person being an underage female. Triple x-rated conversations would take place, and often times explicit pictures would be sent to what they believed was an underage girl. Eventually, they would attempt to meet this underage girl and act out all the fantasies with her that they spoke of in the chat room. However, they would be in for a major shock when they would show up to the underage actors house and be surprised by a television camera crew and the reporter Chris Hansen. It made for great television period after Chris Hansen emasculated and embarrassed these online sexual predators, he would allow them to leave where they would walk into the hands of waiting law enforcement. Well it was obvious that many of these predators had severe psychological issues, many did not. They were teachers, soldiers, pastors, and other respectable people within their communities.
Fast-forward to 2016, and now we have a new take on the To Catch a Predator idea. The channel is Anxiety Wars on YouTube. This time alone individual is attempting to ensnare online sexual predators without major television backing. In an era of Kickstarter and crowdsourcing, this guy is doing it all on his own and broadcasting his videos over YouTube. I can’t find his name online so I just have to refer to him as “the vigilante.” His work has become extremely controversial and he is currently in some lawsuits so he declined any interview with Slickster Magazine. It is the question comma how far can one person take the law into their own hands?
Well, at one point his YouTube channel was banned, it is now readily available to the public. And the viewers are devouring his contact. Several of his videos have near a half a million views within weeks of posting. Obviously he is striking a chord with someone somewhere. Insisting that he does not want the focus to be on himself, but the issues of online sexual predators comma he continues to fight back against his critics.
Will this be a flash in the pan, or a legitimate movement to aggressively go after online sexual predators? Leave some comments below and let us know, if you think he is justified in his actions or simply and attention-seeking do-gooder?