re: Kickstarter To Bring Back To Catch A Predator

it was neither.

It was how utterly fricking embarrassed NBC was by the entire thing. As it turns out "perverted justice" is a pretty unethical and slimy group. For starters, there is no chain of custody for the "conversation" they have with would be pederasts. They can completely doctor the entire transcripts (and as it turns out, a lot of people think they do) If that isn't bad enough their behavior and practices off camera cross the line between harmless vigilante justice and flat out harassment and intimidation.

Then you have esteemed NBC news and chris hanson who basically had nothing criminal against some guy, surround his house with policemen, etc. and he kills himself...so it was some of the most unethical "journalism" ever put on network TV. See they put that guy on the spot (they actively pursue people vs. baiting them) and since he never got in his car and appeared, the police had basically just entrapped him. Now if he got in his car and had time to think about it, well yeah, not so much. But a lot of these guys got off (real predators) because NBC wanted ratings and enlisted an unethical group of cyber terrorists to help them. They didn't vette anyone, they didn't do anything in a way that NBC should and that is if you look back that the network should be above that.

here comes honey boo boo is sophisticated in comparison

but yeah, lawsuit liability was definitely a major factor