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by pavel_lishin 2650 days ago
They also have a habit of mis-identifying people and hounding them down.
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well this material seems luckily carefully selected and without I persons visible. A found place is also pretty easy to verify.
Sure. But I think Pizzagate has shown us that there's enough weirdos out there who'll show up to a place demanding answers.

And don't forget, people are strongly died to locations. If Reddit decides that a particular photo is located at 287 FM 772, that's someone's house, and a name can easily be associated with it. Nobody wants to receive a Google alert that their name is suddenly popping up in /r/find-a-pedophile