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0 pointsechoangle11d ago0 comments

It’s not even close to being the worst thing in my opinion. There are people driven into suicide by blackmailing them over social media and people selling murder for hire on the Darknet.

Some death threats are pretty harmless compared to that, assuming that nothing actually happens (which is pretty likely in my opinion).

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Jeff_Brown11d ago

As someone who has received death threats, I can tell you, the comfort from the fact that they're usually not acted on, while real, is not huge.

lynx9711d ago

It is a valueable learning experience. Especially if you are naiv enough like me, to actually give police a call after someone threatened you with death. Pretty sobering when the guy on the other end of the line just flips you off with "And what do you think are we supposed to do about it now?" Thats when you learn that some of your problems are pretty much imagined :-) and that there is a difference beween TV and real life...

echoangleOP11d ago

I am sorry for that and I can see that it’s bad, but the internet just has a lot of things that are even worse.

manphone11d ago

That’s not an explanation or an excuse at all.

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heavyset_go11d ago

> people selling murder for hire on the Darknet.

It's always a honeypot, no one besides local junkies and people with personal beefs will do a murder for hire that a working person can afford.

There are people who are dumb enough to go to prison after paying like $1k-$10k for a "murder", like after a flight and hotel how much are you expecting your would-be assassin to make?

morkalork11d ago

It exists in organized crime but all the cases I've read about have that one thing in common: The killer worked for organized crime. And they were never fully unaligned either, always for the same families or groups that are loosely allied.

mattmaroon11d ago

Yeah CSAM is worse.

But I think we can all agree there are a lot of negative effects of the new world where online gaming is without limits and government intervention is needed to some extent.

creatonez11d ago

> and people selling murder for hire on the Darknet.

When this existed, it was quite literally done using the prediction market model. It was an early prototype for all this insanity.

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