That culminated in NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” series where millions upon millions became aware of the widespread problem of adults attempting to sexually assault minors they met online
We’ve been around a very, very long time now in terms of internet years. Back when we started in 2003, there was no twitter, no facebook and google wasn’t much more than a search engine. Amazon was mostly known for selling books, even!
Without social networking, most socializing online when we started up happened in large chat rooms on the networks of the major players at the time. MSN chats, AOL chats and Yahoo chats. Thusly, we set ourselves up to put decoy profiles into those chats, mostly focusing on regional chat rooms to deal with the issue of adults preying on minors online.
When we started, there were few laws on the books across the country against trying to solicit a child online, we even wrote the majority of one law and testified in front of a few state legislatures to get them to catch up to the internet era. Læs videre “At the start of 2019, we’ve decided to cease active decoy operations”