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The shadowy online masterminds fuelling Japan's violent crime wave (thetimes.com)
3 points by rntn on Oct 18, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Mastermind my ass. Armed, home invading thugs are not waiting on a leash held by some online person. Moreover, normal people are not going to be talked into violent crime by some online stranger.

The news media just loves internet bogeymen, that's all. Since the dawn of the introduction of Internet into everyday life, internet activity has been disproportionately villainized and blamed for this and that.

Of course criminals today have mobile devices and use the network to communicate and organize, like everyone else. What should they use, smoke signals? Flashlights in a window?




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