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Some of you need to get your analytical objects in place with regard to the console war/ ActivisionBlizzard angle.

X% of the world's population are arseholes/ pedophiles etc. Any large organization such as Sony, MS and ActivisionBlizzard will have somewhere close to X% of arseholes/ pedophiles in them. That is not newsworthy.

However, you should hold organisations accountable for how they handle an employee they realise is an arsehole/ pedophile etc.

What ActivisionBlizzard did was both to allow these people to stay as well as encouraged further bad behaviour. That is why they are being held to account as an organization.

 

[McCheese]

That sorta like saying all children can stay at Michael Jackson’s house as hotels can be a bad place

Well that's your invite revoked

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Source: https://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/580331036
Might get taken down, one thread already nuked.

Start of thread, most details in the twitter chain:

Why does he keep calling him Geoff?

 

[Calverz]

I’m assuming he has been sacked by now and Sony have released a statement yes?

 

[Jennings]

I’m assuming he has been sacked by now and Sony have released a statement yes?

It's the weekend and there have been no formal charges or accusations. That would be some lightning fast knee-jerking.

 

[McCheese]

Place your bets on how Jason Schierer will take credit for this one when it does become breaking news.

1. Had the news first but was waiting for verification
2. Went undercover in his schoolgirl outfit
3. Is writing a new book about the girls working conditions

 

[DenchDeckard]

the fact he is wearing a ps5 shirt in those pics and video. there is no way there isnt some heads rolling at sony right now. All the content he is wearing PS5 shit. No way it doesnt do some short term famage to the brand..in December!

But more importantly, this guy deserves all the HEAT!

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

There was also a male designer who left the company recently due to how he saw women PLURAL being mistreated. It’s a real issue.

it may be an isolated problem, we do not know if it’s systemic and has been pushed under the rug

 

[Melchiah]

People are actually taking random gamergaters word for granted?

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

4The(underage)Players

Really d00d?

 

[GymWolf]

ResetEra is cowering their friends i see ...

Edit: And i remember this as well,

see how they howl when it's a company (not even) doing the fracture of their pedo allies do?

Their lack of self-awareness is the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

I don't. I'm just pointing out that people are using a word they don't understand. Don't know why some people are going ape shit over this. Pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent human beings. 15 yo is way too old to be prepubescent. Simple.

Context is everything.

I had a 15 year old gf when I was 18. It wasn't weird because we were close enough in age that we were considered peers. Literally nobody cared.

Now I'm in my early 30s. If I were to chase 15 year olds around, people would call me a pedo, and rightfully so, even if I'm technically just a creepy old man. It's not normal behavior and it needs to be punished by society.

 

[Marvel]

psnonce

 

[anthony2690]

Their lack of self-awareness is the gift that keeps on giving.

Oooft Era, wouldn't be surprised if they were child bonkers too.
I would argue this is harder evidence than all the twitter hate trains they jump aboard to ruin someone.
There is chatlog, with pictures, and hell a video that the guy even went outside to meet someone he believed was 15.

 

[StealthGoblin]

Hopefully if this is true this is dealt with swiftly by the company and the law.

From what I’ve seen though, I can’t see much in the form of evidence. Things like this really shouldn’t be posted online without irrefutable hard evidence as claims like this can ruin lives.

Edit: clearly I’ve missed things. Like I say, if this is proved it needs to be dealt with very quickly.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Shitty people are everywhere and law exists to take care about them.
Assuming it's true of course.

Sure, but there's lots of this stuff happening everywhere without ever being brought to court, someone complaining to the police etc. People should be more sensitive and vigilant towards predatory behaviour, may it be child abuse, psychological abuse, bullying or whatever. Too much scumbags out there getting away with it because people in general are too gullible and naive.

 

[Banjo64]

To anyone who doesn’t watch To Catch A Predator or any of the similar modern day teams that do this:

As long as the ‘decoy’ doesn’t try to entrap the person (e.g. talking about sex first), then the person investigating can provide these chat logs to the police and this guy is going to get arrested and most likely charged.

The rules you need abide by to meet prosecution standards are pretty simple, and well known for the people in this line of work.

You can also get royally fucked if you don’t follow the rules and then publish the information anyway.

Obviously wait for confirmation but I’d say this guy is guilty as sin for trying to solicit sex from a minor, and he’s going to lose his job over it and will probably get a 1 or 2 year suspended sentence.

 

[Tommi84]

Buuut, let's see how Sony handles this situation.

 

[nush]

People are actually taking random gamergaters word for granted?

 

[Bernd Lauert]

To anyone who doesn’t watch To Catch A Predator or any of the similar modern day teams that do this:

As long as the ‘decoy’ doesn’t try to entrap the person (e.g. talking about sex first), then the person investigating can provide these chat logs to the police and this guy is going to get arrested and most likely charged.

The rules you need abide by to meet prosecution standards are pretty simple, and well known for the people in this line of work.

You can also get royally fucked if you don’t follow the rules and then publish the information anyway.

Obviously wait for confirmation but I’d say this guy is guilty as sin for trying to solicit sex from a minor, and he’s going to lose his job over it and will probably get a 1 or 2 year suspended sentence.

I remember when they tried to start this TV format in Germany. It didn't work because the minors were fake so the perps technically didn't do anything wrong.

 

[Banjo64]

I remember when they tried to start this TV format in Germany. It didn't work because the minors were fake so the perps technically didn't do anything wrong.

It’s based on intent in the UK and US.

 

[FunkMiller]

Just to save my sanity..l has none whos read through this seen any evidence beyond social media posts that this is a thing?

I’m not spending ages thinking up hilarious paedo gags for nothing.

 

[FranXico]

Some of you need to get your analytical objects in place with regard to the console war/ ActivisionBlizzard angle.

X% of the world's population are arseholes/ pedophiles etc. Any large organization such as Sony, MS and ActivisionBlizzard will have somewhere close to X% of arseholes/ pedophiles in them. That is not newsworthy.

However, you should hold organisations accountable for how they handle an employee they realise is an arsehole/ pedophile etc.

What ActivisionBlizzard did was both to allow these people to stay as well as encouraged further bad behaviour. That is why they are being held to account as an organization.

Let's see how SIE handles this.

Hang that sick prick!

 

[SLB1904]

I wonder what his wife and two boys will make of all of this?

Some of you are just creepy as hell. Did you really thought is posting his family pics is good idea?

 

[nush]

Just to save my sanity..l has none whos read through this seen any evidence beyond social media posts that this is a thing?

I’m not spending ages thinking up hilarious paedo gags for nothing.

There's the screencaps
There's a selfie of him in a PS5 T shirt
There's video of him opening the door wearing the same PS5 Tshirt.
There's a Youtube channel that he's the 93rd person they have caught.

That's a whole lot of evidence people need to handwave that this isn't real.

 

[nkarafo]

It’s based on intent in the UK and US.

Which should be the way.

Because i never get why so many people get in legal trouble when they date girls that look much older than they are and turn out to be minors in the end. They get persecuted as pedos even though their intent was to date an adult. What sense does that make?

 

[anthony2690]

Some of you are just creepy as hell. Did you really thought is posting his family pics is good idea?

Way too far, I can imagine his family will be upset enough, definitely no need to share pictures of his wife and kids.

 

[boomcrab]

Some of you need to get your analytical objects in place with regard to the console war/ ActivisionBlizzard angle.

X% of the world's population are arseholes/ pedophiles etc. Any large organization such as Sony, MS and ActivisionBlizzard will have somewhere close to X% of arseholes/ pedophiles in them. That is not newsworthy.

However, you should hold organisations accountable for how they handle an employee they realise is an arsehole/ pedophile etc.

What ActivisionBlizzard did was both to allow these people to stay as well as encouraged further bad behaviour. That is why they are being held to account as an organization.

Couldn't have said it better.
How is Sony supposed to know he's a pedophile? Lol this is just an opportunity for fanboys to do fanboy shit.
Like you said, what matters is how they handle it.

 

[Honey Bunny]

People are actually taking random gamergaters word for granted?

 

[docbot]

Can we move this to off topic?

 

[FoundryMusic]

Wearing that PS5 shirt for the world to see

Weirdest guerilla marketing ever.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Some of you are just creepy as hell. Did you really thought is posting his family pics is good idea?

Completely agree, keep the fam out of this and no one should be posting pics of them.

 

[FunkMiller]

There's the screencaps
There's a selfie of him in a PS5 T shirt
There's video of him opening the door wearing the same PS5 Tshirt.
There's a Youtube channel that he's the 93rd person they have caught.

That's a whole lot of evidence people need to handwave that this isn't real.

Any signs of criminal investigation as yet?

I’m not necessarily doubting you dude, I’m just wary of believing anything these days until I see formal proceedings existing.

 

[anthony2690]

Any signs of criminal investigation as yet?

I’m not necessarily doubting you dude, I’m just wary of believing anything these days until I see formal proceedings existing.

After watching the people Vs preds live video that went up a couple mins ago, I have a feeling he loses all credibility sadly, once he starts following them, cussing them out and harassing the predator, he says millions of times he is going to call the cops and then doesn't, it feels more like he just wants the views/attention for going after vile people, rather than bringing them to justice.
Pretty annoying/irritating tbh, it seems like he is more interested in trying to intimidate them to talk, as I guess that would make better viewing for people that enjoy this stuff.
But surely he should report it along with his evidence, maybe have police with him ready to get these people that turn up to meet what they are hoping is a minor.

 

[FunkMiller]

After watching the people Vs preds live video that went up a couple mins ago, I have a feeling he loses all credibility sadly, once he starts following them, cussing them out and harassing the predator, he says millions of times he is going to call the cops and then doesn't, it feels more like he just wants the views/attention for going after vile people, rather than bringing them to justice.
Pretty annoying/irritating tbh, it seems like he is more interested in trying to intimidate them to talk, as I guess that would make better viewing for people that enjoy this stuff.
But surely he should report it along with his evidence, maybe have police with him ready to get these people that turn up to meet what they are hoping is a minor.

Okay.

My rule of thumb generally tends to be believe nothing until authorities are involved.

If someone commits a criminal act, it’s very hard in this day and age to prevent any evidence from existing altogether.

If this paedo hunter has such, then he would report to authorities… otherwise what’s the point?

Way too many people get hauled over the social media coals these days, usually due to ulterior motives of those doing it.

Show me some evidence this bloke is a paedo, and I’ll be right there condemning him. Before that though, I ain’t doing shit. Nobody else should either.

 

[anthony2690]

Okay.

My rule of thumb generally tends to be believe nothing until authorities are involved.

If someone commits a criminal act, it’s very hard in this day and age to prevent any evidence from existing altogether.

If this paedo hunter has such, then he would report to authorities… otherwise what’s the point?

Way too many people get hauled over the social media coals these days, usually due to ulterior motives of those doing it.

Show me some evidence this bloke is a paedo, and I’ll be right there condemning him. Before that though, I ain’t doing shit.

I think the chat log and him coming outside to meet what believes is a child showcases his intent.

He even has the same t-shirt on in the pictures he sent and when he comes outside.

He continues to ask someone who says they are 15 if they suck or like to be sucked, that conversation should've ended the moment they stated they were a minor.

Not sure, what else you would need to see, to know off someone's guilt.

 

[Bartski]

just woke up to this, WOW what a mess. Just read those published PMs, he's totally fucked. And as SVP he reports directly to Jimbo... They must be having an all-hands on deck right now to make a statement tomorrow.

 

[PendekarRajawali]

Unless I'm mistaken, it's a Samsung phone, but what app is this?

 

[nush]

Any signs of criminal investigation as yet?

It's Sunday and this story is just hours old, what do you expect?

 

[Edgelord79]

I just think people are going to deservedly rub this in the people's faces who felt the need to boast about Jim Ryan's comments because to many of us, it was perceived as a publicity stunt. Same goes for Spencer's comments.

This.

It doesn't matter whar company it is, this type of social media grandstanding is never a good idea.

 

[octiny]

This thread really makes me want to delete my account here

This has absolutely nothing to do with gaming. It's questionable vigilante tactics under falls pretense on a private citizen who may or may not have commited a crime. leave things like this to the police.

mods should close this thread.

I mean, you have 200 posts in 14 years? So you could prob delete it unoticed. Just saying

It's related to the gaming industry, a high level employee that works under the PlayStation brand. The gaming side of the forum isn't just limited to "game" talk. This absolutely belongs here.

On a side note, this guy a fucking disgusting dirt bag.

 

[FunkMiller]

I think the chat log and him coming outside to meet what believes is a child showcases his intent.

He even has the same t-shirt on in the pictures he sent and when he comes outside.

He continues to ask someone who says they are 15 if they suck or like to be sucked, that conversation should've ended the moment they stated they were a minor.

Not sure, what else you would need to see, to know off someone's guilt.

Yeah, all sounds fair enough. I’ve just seen this rodeo before, and shit can be faked so easily these days. I’ve just become naturally deeply suspicious of anything until I see an investigation being carried out.

 

[SLB1904]

Any signs of criminal investigation as yet?

I’m not necessarily doubting you dude, I’m just wary of believing anything these days until I see formal proceedings existing.

There will be no criminal investigation because no crime was committed.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Are we sure it's actually the same guy? That chatlog image and his E3/LinkedIn pics look like two different people to me tbh

I remember when Keemstar sent a mob to a 60-year-old man accusing him of being a pedo but ended up mistaking him for the wrong person

 

[FunkMiller]

It's Sunday and this story is just hours old, what do you expect?

I’d expect anyone who has evidence of someone committing this kind of serious sexual offence to inform authorities before putting it all over the internet... Not least because they are opening themselves up to a whole heap of legal trouble if they are not 100% sure of the veracity of what they are claiming. If the dude is innocent, he’ll come after *everyone*.

 

[ArtHands]

seems he provides better backward compatibility than the PS5

 

[captainraincoat]

There will be no criminal investigation because no crime was committed.

He’s right….and watch this get buried

my guess is there will be some other random event that happens which draws the internet towards it

there’s are reason they call them rock spiders

 

[nush]

That chatlog image and his E3/LinkedIn pics look like two different people to me tbh

Linkedin

Sackboy

Pedo

 

[nush]

I’d expect anyone who has evidence of someone committing this kind of serious sexual offence to inform authorities before putting it all over the internet... Not least because they are opening themselves up to a whole heap of legal trouble if they are not 100% sure of the veracity of what they are claiming. If the dude is innocent, he’ll come after *everyone*.

I guess this is the first time you've encountered pedo catcher Youtube channels. Go watch some that are better than the one in the OP that lucked out getting a "Name" pedo.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Linkedin

Sackboy

Pedo

Yeah the faces still look different to me