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    11 hours ago

    Seems he has since been fired.

    Found a different article:

    Thornton’s attorney, Allison Hart, has strongly denied that her client engaged in any illegal activity and offered an explanation for why he was in the chatroom.

    Hart told TMZ that Thornton became involved in suicide prevention advocacy after losing a close family member to suicide two years ago and had spent time in online forums supporting people experiencing suicidal thoughts.

    According to his attorney, Thornton regularly visited the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline website, but was sent a wrong link and ended up in a chatroom for people with thoughts of pedophilia.

    Yeah that explains why the guy talking about being on a plane (presumably him) is talking about how bold it is of him and how it’s his middle finger to do it in public. Because everyone is so ashamed of chatting to suicidal people on IRC right?

    I don’t get why someone would do this. Was it a power thing? Flexing on people? Well he just found out he didn’t have the power to do this and keep his job. He can probably keep doing this on planes if he wants since it isn’t illegal but he’ll have to do it without his well paying job.

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      Who among us can say they haven’t been sent a link to the wrong chatroom by accident and then posted there like a regular?

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    Here’s all the chat pictures that aren’t in the OP.

    This pedo openly and brazenly did this in public and got exactly what he deserved

    Edit: Just noticed he is using Tor to hang out with his pedophile buddies. His lawyer saying he was there by accident, yeah sure lol.

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      “harrydubois666 disconnected”

      damn, chatroom too nasty even for the great tequila sunshine… thats as un-disco as you can get. Hope you catch the perp mr Costeau

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      reading the first image I was a bit like, maybe it was just one pervert posting, not sure if I could accuse someone of anything for just being in a chatroom with a pervert.

      then I went further and discovered he was the pervert that was driving the pedo chat.

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        It’s relatively benign, no morbid details. They do talk about CP a little bit, mostly how someone got caught by having it as their phone back ground.

        Edit: some one mentioned elsewhere that this is <redacted> which is a support chat for people struggling with pedophilia.

        Edit edit: nm, they literally link to sites claiming legal pedophilia. It looks like the wrong kind of support

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          There is one very creepy line of red text though…I think its about actual child abuse

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      So, to be clear, I am not doubting that he did this, but these pictures are very suspicious. The interface is too clean and perfectly contrasted across the entire screen which is extremely rare for cameras to be able to do, especially at a distance and an off angle. Some of the text has a weird perspective. This honestly looks like it might be fake.

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    It shows how normal it is to him that he’s fine doing it in public. At least this pedo is an idiot and got caught

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    Someone I know would say « anything appearing on your screen in public is fair game. »

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    Does this dude not know if he does this shit in coach on an airplane, there are two other people within viewing and slapping distance of him, minimum, at all times? Or is he some lead-headed boomer fuck who doesn’t have the capacity to understand or care about that?

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      I said the same thing in a cross post, like what the fuck is this guy thinking opening his paedo shit up in a crowded, public place? Like you have your two immediate neighbors who can easily glance, but also the two or three people behind who can easily spy directly without being noticed.

      But again: I’m glad he did it and got caught. What a dumbass though.

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        Not even just a crowded place… a crowded place where you’re usually bored as shit and looking for things to entertain yourself.

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      And then that’s not even getting into the absolute what-the-fuckery of the pedophilia and the community built around it, hooooly shit. This dude needs to serve his prison sentence on the surface of the moon.

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    When you’re a part of the parasitic elite with access to plenty of hot women and guys, but even that’s not good enough for you 🤦

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    Why did I zoom in and read the chat?

    “…you-can-eat boyffet” is absolutely horrendous.