Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton looking at a 'pedophilia' chatroom while on an airplane

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usernameofthisaccount@piefed.social · 84 pts · 2d (5 replies)
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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d

Nah they knew before. The governments… Thats why we should stop calling it the FBI,CSIS,CIA or any agency and just call them rich child rapist protection agencies.

forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1d

I'll believe they're reexamining those claims when people are held accountable.

WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 1d (2 replies)

1 quotation marks are not need in this case. 2 Pedophiles are everywhere. It's just when they are found in Hollywood people say "Hollywood is full of pedophiles" and not "Pedophiles with money, resources, and influence are a dangerous combination"

usernameofthisaccount@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22h

Hollywood functions on a system of mutually assured blackmail. In ordered to get roles, you need to be willing to do something evil and give producers and executives leverage over you, but in return, you have leverage over them. That's why Corey Feldman was chewed out by Barbara Walters, why Roman Polanski got a standing ovation after being found guilty of statutory rape, and why Jared Leto still gets roles when people like Halle Berry or Brendan Fraser were blacklisted until #metoo.

SatansDaughter@quokk.au · 44 pts · 2d (3 replies)

How stupid do you have to be to look at that in public?

baines@lemmy.cafe · 17 pts · 2d

not stupid, just don’t need to hide with this DOJ

WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1d

He literally was getting off on it. In the messages he was talking about all people could see was "a screen with a few lines on it" and was telling the other people in the chatroom that he was going to open up a CP Gallery site.

ContactClosure@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 1d

Protected, not stupid.

anachronist@midwest.social · 41 pts · 2d (23 replies)

I zoomed in to see what they are saying and they're mostly talking about names, then one guy says something creepy in the middle about golden corrall. How do they know it's a pedo chatroom? Could it just be some IRC-style chat where someone said something obscene in the middle?

kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 68 pts · 2d

The full article has images that are MUCH more damning. They were discussing how risky it was for him to be in that chatroom in an airplane and discussing looking at and handling CP.

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 2d (12 replies)

(in green) Went to Golden Corral for the first time with my dad and his wife yesterday. A nice hangout for kids. Saw a couple cute boys and a hot little girl (...)

(...)

(...all-)you-can-eat Boyffet.

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d

BARF

plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · -29 pts · 2d (10 replies)

Could be a kid saying that themselves?

4am@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 2d (6 replies)

Nice try, guy who was in the chat

plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · -13 pts · 2d (5 replies)

No, I seriously don’t see how that comment could be considered incriminating. That would mean that no adult could ever talk to kids. Which shouldn’t need to be explained just how stupid that is.

Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 15 pts · 2d

Little girls aren't hot. Not to normal people, anyway.

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Mentioning seeing a "hot little girl" who is also a "kid" isn't incriminating? Maybe there's nothing immediately legally-actionable about it, but Wheel of Fortune was absolutely right to give him the ol' heave-ho over it. Best case (for them), it's the grossest sentence ever written. Worst case, there's about to be an investigation that will land him in jail for the rest of his life. Either way, firing him is a reasonable consequence for being odious.

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

"oh, maybe that person was just a random deviant and isn't connected to the rest of the chat." Then why didn't anyone call him out? Why wasn't he banned?

ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d

Stop communicating in life.

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Even in the incredibly unlikely scenario that was written by a child, why is this grown man participating in the conversation?

Come on, have some common sense. It's quite obvious what's happening here. This is also not the only relevant piece of the transcript.

BambiDiego@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

I can't believe I have to say this, STOP DEFENDING PEDOPHILES!

WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d

It was a dark web CP chatroom that he has admin rights to.

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1d

That would be an indicator of abuse of that child in itself.

Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Takes one to know one. Hopefully the person taking the photo works with law enforcement somehow and that's why they know.

kn33@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

I mean, or they just have two eyes, an understanding of English, and basic reading comprehension.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

all you can eat boy-fet

yeah...totally unclear of what they're talking about. /s

Waterpumpee@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 2d (5 replies)

prolly from the url plus you could track his user there now

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 2d (3 replies)

My eyes are getting worse, doesn’t it say Lifeline Chat? I would have assumed that was the suicide hotline chat.

sharkteethsandwich@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I think that's what it says too. But I also wouldn't expect a child predator chatroom to be call something like "letstalkabouthavingsexwithchildren.chat"

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

You'd be surprised, do you remember the Trump epstein card?

FatVegan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 2d

He said in another chat window that he's obscuring the url with lifeline and all people could see was colourful lines anyway.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2d

URLs compressed to shit

BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 2d (3 replies)
taxon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d (2 replies)

ಠ_ಠ damn, that's a cursed link... Here's the source https://imagez.tmz.com/image/5c/o/2026/09/03/5c4aaa91eafb49c2b93795167c5341d8.jpg

HandMadeArtisanRobot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Wow, he's not just a user but a moderator!

taxon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d

victorz@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2d (6 replies)

The stupidity to open your pedo chatroom in public while sitting RIGHT NEXT TO OTHER PEOPLE who can definitely see your screen, and with people behind you, who can look directly at what you're typing and reading without even hiding their spying.

Some next level stupid. But I'm glad he did it. Prick.

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I was on a plane last December and the woman in the aisle seat in front of me was watching that popular ER drama. When it got to a part where a guy had an erection issue she paused and zoomed way in. Just stared at it for just simply too long. Then suddenly gave a start and glanced around her until we made eye contact.

Yes, you are in public. We saw that.

victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

So much cringe. Just make a note of the timestamp, rewind when you get home/to the hotel, and start jilling to that shit, very simple.

Karjalan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d (3 replies)

The best bit is that someone, in the chat room, even says says "isn't it risky to be doing that on a plane?" and y he laughs it off

victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Really? I can't find that, lol

Karjalan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16h (1 reply)

Somonoe else posted it.

here it is

victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h

Well that's incriminating, holy shit

qarbone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Insane

"Wait, is that the new guy from Wheel of Fortune?!

....

Is that a pedo chatroom!?!"

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d

1000004570

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

Everything's a pedo chatroom, if you're a "conservative".

Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d

"Starrynightsky" and "nicholasB77" are currently microwaveing their drives and then shredding them and all related hardware

uberdroog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (3 replies)

How is this site still active? WTF.

cm0002@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 2d

Drumpy DOJ....

BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

Because we're in this weird middle-ground where we won't cure the bastards and we won't kill the bastards, so we just do neither and let the bastards amass piles of child victims.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2d

there are obscure sites, that will do this as well, some sites that looks Normal but if you dig deep enough . some will have inneundos as well, often times its also paired with beastiality too.

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Get these fuckers OUT oh my GOD

TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d

fucking EWWWW

Zozano@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2d

Harry Dubois, what have you done with Cunno?!