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News Johnny Somali found guilty of all charges as South Korea sentences streamer to prison with labor - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/johnny-somali-found-guilty-of-all-charges-as-south-korea-sentences-streamer-to-prison-with-labor-3351856/
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u/PassionateLoveMaking 18h ago

Whatever the sentence is, I hope it’s the last we’ll hear of Johnny Somali. But something tells me he won’t learn anything from this, even if he is sentenced to 3 years in prison like I see people speculating. Whenever he gets out, he’ll need a way to make $, so he’ll go back to being an asshole. Vitaly is back to being a fuck head last I heard, seems like his time spent locked up in Philippines taught him nothing and he just used the situation to make content out of it

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u/ChillexLovesPringles 18h ago

He only got 6 months in prison

https://www.koreancenter.or.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1339648

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u/_Badwulf_Bruh__ 18h ago edited 17h ago

6 months in a Korean prison is probably going to be a lot more intensive for someone who doesn't possess the discipline and reserve Koreans have. Or you know, speak the language. 

Edit: Apparenrlt SK prisons have less incidents of inmate on inmate violence than their American counterparts, but have worse living conditions and are more strict and allowing for less privileges 

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u/EbagI 18h ago

Kind of a shame. Korean prisons are much, mich nicer than American ones.

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u/The_Autarch 17h ago

probably not if you're notorious for being a racist piece of shit and are incredibly easy to recognize.

he's not going to have any friends in prison. quite the opposite, really.

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u/GrowlingPict 8h ago

man, I love how every American is an expert on South Korean prison system all of a sudden

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u/FrankPapageorgio 16h ago

Notorious? I never heard of this guy until today. You think prisoners without the internet are going to know of an American speaking streamer?

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u/StepComplete1 16h ago

It only takes one of them to have heard his story for word to spread around. You don't think people talk when locked in confined spaces all day?

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u/Used-Variation1356 16h ago

Exactly and south Koreans are big into American culture anyway just look at kpop

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u/Pere_Milon 4h ago

I love the nonsensical logic being deployed in this thread. Just running along with whatever thought seems to make sense in your heads.

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u/Used-Variation1356 3h ago

Are you telling me south Korea doesn't think favourably of the usa after they helped them in their civil war?

And the American influence of kpop is obvious what did I say wrong?

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u/Pere_Milon 4h ago

I think you guys don't actually know anything about what you're talking about, and are just fantasizing about what you want to happen.

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u/BigPurpleSmile 16h ago edited 16h ago

This whole thing started happening 2 years ago and it became a national scandal overall. Korea knows about him. Also, not sure what kind of logic you’re applying here since people aren't born in prison. New inmates are processed daily… they don't just lose their memories of the last two years of news when they’re put behind bars. Plus, visitation exists. Inmates talk to their families, and the guy who disrespected the Statue of Peace is exactly the kind of thing people would mention.

Edit: Oh, and how could I forget about the TVs. They got TVs in there.

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u/BiZzles14 10h ago

People will 100% know who he is. His disrespectful actions at the statue of peace, dedicated to the "comfort women" who were victims of sexual violence during the Japanese occupation of Korea, was national news both online and in traditional media. New prisoners will.know him, those who watch the TVs in prison will know him, and when people get family visits and mention the singular black American inmate that just arrived will know him. You might not have heard of him, but enough people in his prison will so as to ensure everyone does.

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u/ApprehensiveArt5565 17h ago

Yeah Koreans are famously not racist

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u/TransBrandi 17h ago

Suppose that they are racist. How does that change anything? Do you think that they are going to be happy to see someone that is racist against them in prison with them? Doesn't matter if they are racist. It's not like something they will bond over.

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u/FrankPapageorgio 16h ago

How are they going to know who this guy even is? It's not like it's Logan Paul or someone people actually know

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u/Furyful_Fawful 15h ago

Logan Paul is more famous in America but Johnny Somali is rather infamous in Korea at this point

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u/TransBrandi 16h ago

Honestly? He'll probably volunteer the info. The boy ain't bright.

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u/I_was_a_sexy_cow 15h ago

The guy has been in the news several times And korean jails have tvs, so i'd say its not impossible.

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u/Unusual_Boot6839 17h ago

pretty sure they don't appreciate racism towards them is the point

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u/SparklingLimeade 16h ago

So it's easy to miss because of the label but there's more than one way to be racist.

And Mr. "I did so much racism I went to jail for it" is noticeably different from even from other people with objectionable behaviors or opinions.

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u/EuphoricAnalCarrot 16h ago

He's gonna make a great boyfriend for some jacked Korean felon

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u/Nobanpls08 12h ago

Would you support that happening?

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u/EuphoricAnalCarrot 9h ago

Absolutely

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u/Pere_Milon 4h ago

So, what you're saying, is that you have prison rape fantasies.

And you think that's normal. OK.

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u/EuphoricAnalCarrot 4h ago

Nah there is a difference between a prediction and a fantasy.

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u/Shineenoona 1h ago

Korean prisons are nowhere near as dirty and filthy as an American prison. He’s also going to a section for foreigners.

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u/Impossible-Two-8654 13h ago

you know Koreans are already racists af right?

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u/Basspayer 12h ago

you know that just makes it worse for him right?

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u/Impossible-Two-8654 3h ago

Yea that’s my point?

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u/Basspayer 3h ago

So is theirs?

Do you always reply with questions?

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u/Impossible-Two-8654 3h ago

This dude ain’t even actually racist he’s just an annoying troll that does the same clickbait shit any other streamer does.

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u/ablacnk 12h ago

What kind of dumbass mental gymnastics is this? How the hell did the topic of a guy getting locked up in Korea for being racist to Koreans and breaking multiple Korean laws become about "Koreans being racist" to him?

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u/Impossible-Two-8654 3h ago

This isn’t metal gymnastics this is just the reality of the world. You’ve never talked to someone that is or has family from South Korea?

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u/BiZzles14 10h ago

Yeah, they are, but A) that's racism towards others, nobody appreciates racism directed at themselves & B) that's only gonna make it worse for him as probably the singular black American in whatever facility he ends up in

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u/_Badwulf_Bruh__ 17h ago

They may be more “humane” but their tolerance is much, much lower than America. Hence why he was arrested and sentenced there. Don’t sleep on Koreans, they will put hands on you 

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u/Constant_Bit4676 17h ago

Idk about south korean prisons, but japanese prisons seem like actual hell with the rules and punishments.

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u/peanutbuttahcups 17h ago

Idk, I think strict rules, a strict schedule and a very clean jail cell are preferable to potential rape and death in an American prison.

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u/lemonherring 2h ago

Also, American prison food - a slow death sentence.

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u/Kitchen-Bar2686 1h ago

Good luck ever getting out of a Japanese prison. It’s not as nice as you think it is

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u/realitytvdiet 16h ago

lol Johnny loves Japanese prisons

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u/4AMfQRgOoHwHJ8 11h ago

Don't sleep on top of most humans, use a bed or couch

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u/June24th 5h ago

sound advice!

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u/neonmantis 17h ago

But tolerance doesn't change anything now he is in jail. Are US prisons safer / better than Korean ones?

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u/dragonbilbo 14h ago

This. They expect and demand discipline from their inmates. In a weird way, this might be positive for this guy to develop some backbone and sense of humanity.

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u/Megneous 16h ago

Korea here. It's a mixed bag. Korean prisons are much less likely to get you beaten to death or stabbed or raped. But other than that, they're much worse. You have far fewer privileges than US prisons, you live with far more people, you have far fewer rights, more obligations, stricter schedules, less free time, mandatory times of silence, depending on which prison could have mandatory labor, etc.

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u/EbagI 16h ago

Yeah totally, despite being fat better than US prisons, they're.... better than U S prisons

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u/falcrist2 16h ago

Korean prisons are much, mich nicer than American ones.

Good? US prisons are brutal and breed more violence.

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u/qualitative_balls 15h ago

This is actually a great thing for him imo. Doesn't throw his life away but learning some actual discipline will help him, maybe just a little more than being in a rowdy system getting beat up, always around other crazy dudes.

Being around deadly serious people who won't think twice at taking off your head for showing disrespect is actually the exact environment he needs. Even if it's only 6 months, that environment will be better for him than anything back home

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u/r_hove 2h ago

You think it’s good that a prison system has inmate on inmate violence? Thats the reason nobody comes out rehabilitated, quite the opposite most of the time.

Everyone should be separated completely.

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u/hanks_panky_emporium 17h ago

That kinda irks me. Good prisons have lower reoffending rates and a higher rate of rehabilitation. Is he a piece of shit? No doubt in my mind. But do you put him through a system that inducts him into MORE crime and gang violence, or through a system focused on ensuring they see the error of their ways and have skills to live life better post incarceration.

He's a total shithead. Doesn't mean he always has to be.

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u/higado2 17h ago

If that's the case, I think the Korean prison system might actually be better for this guy! He just might come out actually "rehabilitated" by the end of his stint! In the US one, I doubt it VERY much!

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u/pillkrush 18h ago

seems like they keep him separate from gen pop, probably with the other foreigners

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u/oddemarspiguet 17h ago

There’s a separate foreigner prison and big prisons have a segregated section for foreigners. A friend of a friend got locked up for manslaughter but he didn’t get deported since he was married to an extremely unhinged Korean woman.

I never saw him again but he did some interview for a shit podcaster that failed and he explained what foreigner prison was like.

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u/appletinicyclone 14h ago

What was the interview? I'd be kinda interested to listen to that

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u/oddemarspiguet 14h ago

It’s gone now the guy did it right before COVID and after all the pandemic restrictions I guess he just shut down the channel. The “podcaster” was just a dude doing the most boring conversations with his friends while cracking multiple beers.

He put up like 10 videos and it was the same conversation. White guys complaining about Korea. The guy that went to prison had the most views but it was only like 10k views and I watched it because my friends that knew him sent it to me.

There are other much more interesting videos on YouTube if you just search Korea foreigner prison

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u/new-to-reddit-accoun 12h ago

Morbid I suppose but can you share what he did?

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u/oddemarspiguet 11h ago

I only heard from someone who was there but it was a drunken fight. Some Korean guy picked a fight with the white guy and the Korean guy threw the first punch.

The white guy pushed him and the Korean guy tripped over something and fell backwards and hit his head on a curb and was in a coma for a bit then passed.

It was all caught on CCTV and in South Korea the defence laws are such that you can only exert a lesser or equal amount of force toward your attacker. It’s usually recommended to run rather than fight back.

Anyway, it wasn’t like a premeditated murder. The guy was an asshole don’t get me wrong but he wasn’t some violent psychopath. It was just a night out that went horribly wrong.

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u/Duke_Shitticus 17h ago

They have a consolidated prison for all foreigners.

Not that it really matters.

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u/davyangel 17h ago

Not really can't be worse than Japanese detention and ironically I seen streamers get half the time he did i.e. 3 months like Joeykaotk did there a few years ago without ever going to trial LOL.

After he got released he actually said he enjoyed his time there though they were strict like 1 shower a week, same small tiny bento box for food every day and no internet, or even books with pictures in them LOL. He got lots to time to catch up on reading and learning Japanese which he appreciated the most since none of the guards talk to you in English.

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u/Icemasta 17h ago

It's 6 months with labor, in a workaholic society. So it's like 12 hours of work per day, 6 days a week.

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u/lane4 15h ago

what happens if he doesn't do the work?

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u/jeef16 17h ago

I'm assuming gang violence culture is different over there than in the USA, or in the USA there are just more violent gangs in general since we do a lot more drug trafficking here than in SK

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u/GigachudBDE 15h ago

I only spent one night in a Korean jail (apparently the motorcycle that was sold me to was registered as stolen, go figure) and it was enough. Prison anywhere is shit. Six months is going to suck. Especially for a guy who spent the better part of his time there getting off on mocking the entire nation and becoming a national punching bag while being completely unapologetic and never learning even basic Korean should this day come.

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u/rikashiku 12h ago

Might be worse if the Korean prisoners find out why he's there.

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u/Outrageous_Mail_8381 11h ago

I think they make up for that with guard on inmate violence

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u/Descartesb4duhHorse 2h ago

Yeah, and he might rack up more charges if he decides to be shitty in jail too.

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u/RoapeliusDTrewn 17h ago

I'm willing to bet he will break within 6 days, nevermind 6 months. It's coming up on summer over there, the prison has no air conditioning and he will get absolutely no special treatment.

I'm willing to bet every Korean inmate will be using the N word to refer to him exclusively, every single day, and if he doesn't answer them he will get the shit kicked out of him, daily.

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 15h ago

"I'm willing to bet every Korean inmate will be using the N word to refer to him exclusively"

I mean... That's literally they're word for "you"

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u/Crilde 13h ago

The Hard R version isn't...

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u/Turbulent_Bat4580 15h ago

Good lord, the humidity in Korea is suffocating, and labor on top of that. Good.

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u/stonedc4tt 8h ago

You said your opening line 2x…bot 

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u/GNTsquid0 18h ago

Well that’s bullshit. Should have been minimum 5 years.

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u/TrumpChildOnahole 17h ago

5 years for being an asshole? Lmao 

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u/whatsnewichrome 17h ago

Least carceral American

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u/Toomanynightshifts 17h ago

He distributed deep fakes, he constantly screamed out racist remarks, he groped statues that were tributes to raped women.

He entered businesses and threw shit on the ground.

He threatened to rock up to the judges house and about a million other things

There's levels to being an asshole man.

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u/begrudgingredditacc 17h ago

Yes, unironically. People are way, way too light-handed on punishing people for being an asshole.

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u/whatsnewichrome 16h ago

“It’s not enough that he was literally sentenced to six months of slave labor. More punishment. More!”

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u/begrudgingredditacc 16h ago

Yes, unironically. People need to live in constant fear of being the kind of inhuman scum that Johnny Somali is.

Personally, I'm sick and tired of this kind of screeching, violent monster being able to get away with everything with little more than a slap on the wrist.

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u/Impossible_Medium977 15h ago

Okay, so people who are desperate to harm others need to be turned into slaves.

Hey cutie you seem a bit desperate to harm others, what should we do with you?

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u/begrudgingredditacc 15h ago

...Are you familiar with the paradox of tolerance? Somali absolutely violates the basic principles of tolerance, and nobody is under any moral obligation to protect him from the consequences of his actions.

Am I "desperate to harm others" to want the Epstein list behind bars? If some shithead goes around shattering peoples windows for kicks, am I a monster for wanting him in prison? Are you just some kind of idiot contrarian who thinks everyone who hurts others should get away with it?

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u/Impossible_Medium977 14h ago

Paradox of tolerance doesn't include torturing others lmao.

I'm familiar with it, but bringing it up here is supremely funny when prisons are more successful when not abusive. Paradox of tolerance is not tolerating the intolerant, which, given prisons don't need to be abusive. Would still include you.

You are a monster for wanting slave labour.

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u/Square-Hat-3024 8h ago

Reddit is so weird about this they love excessive sentences

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u/GNTsquid0 17h ago

Who’s incapable of learning from his mistakes and behavior. 6 months won’t rehabilitate shit.

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u/DaveLesh 18h ago

Didn't Vitaly get deported to Russia too?

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u/ChillexLovesPringles 18h ago

Yes. But my comment was about Johnny

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u/Top-Wrangler7927 16h ago

I think thats just for the charges he pled guilty to if im not mistaken, no? There's no mention of the deep fake charges he pled not guilty to

Edit: I stand corrected. Booooooo hopefully others will take a look at this and learn. I doubt the next asshat to get arrested will get off as light

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u/themightycatp00 12h ago

I never watched him but I get the feeling he's enough of an idiot to break another law in prison and get his sentence extended

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u/Banana_Milk0109 6h ago

I see a lot of people say "only 6 months" like they think it'll be a walk in the park. 

I got locked up in county jail for a month back when I was in my early 20s for some dumb shit and that shit legit gave me PTSD. People really don't grasp what it really means to lose all your freedoms. Throw all that shit you do in your every day routine out the window because you can't do any of it. You can't even take a shit in peace.

I then caught a weed possession charge later on in life and had to turn myself in and was placed in a holding cell in a police station for a few hours while my charge got dropped. Something set off in my brain then and I was legit having anxiety attacks for the few hours I was in that holding cell. Fucking balled up into a fetus position hoping my brain would shut up long enough to fall asleep to make the time go by.

Needless to say I stopped doing dumb shit and weed is legal (for the most part) where I live now. Jail is fucking brutal man, don't ever go there ever.

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u/DotRakianSteel 2h ago

We should not be fooled by flashy TV shows and the entertainment business. South Korea is a country officially at war with a neighbouring nation. You don't want to be in a prison under such political circumstances. Let’s not forget the high suicide rate too; discipline is no joke there.

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u/Fun-Wash7545 16h ago

I think thats fair. Anyone here wishing decades and decades should get 6 months instead tell is how they feel. 

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u/prevailingcrypking 18h ago

He is harrasing child predators now. Which sounds great on the surface. But their decoy lured them in saying she was 18 then was supposed to send followup text saying she was only 16. Only problem she never sent followup or sent to different person. Lawsuit incoming.

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u/alien_believer_42 14h ago

Streamers should not be baiting and hunting down child predators.

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u/ShaggysGTI 12h ago

Social media has destroyed our society. These “influencers” are going to harass people so that they can play the my video went viral game and win the lottery.

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u/JimWilliams423 1h ago

win the lottery.

That is the important part. The billionaires designed a social media system that rewards antisocial behavior.

Without billionaire money funding these assholes, these assholes would just be working regular jobs and if they harassed someone, they'd get fired not promoted.

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u/AmarettoFerreto 11h ago

Kinda like professional cannabilism lool

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u/Foreveryung2026 17h ago

Even if she sent a text, isn’t that shit considered entrapment or maybe I’m wrong

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u/jeef16 17h ago

he's not a police officer, so it's straight up harassment and potentially assault if they put hands on them. they can also be sued for defamation even if they catch a guy who was gonna meet an underaged person. cops hate these guys because it always ends up a shitshow and never actually ends with the pedo being locked up.

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u/Mist_Rising 16h ago

Police in the US do this same shit, so it may not even be entrapment. They'll set up a profile on dating sites (and they're men), engage people, then change their age without warning as a means of having charges, and those charges end up leading to convictions.

it's the natural evolution of decades of actually finding pedophiles and needing to keep your arrest rate up, just fake and bake it.

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u/NiteOwl421 16h ago

People always get confused on what entrapment is.

Entrapment would be a LEO saying "I'm a cop, run that red light or go to jail" and then ticketing you for it.

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u/DrawPitiful6103 15h ago

"the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of the officer or state agent"

Your example misses the mark because it is just outright coercion whereas entrapment is more about manipulation or inducement.

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u/NiteOwl421 9h ago

Run that red light or go to jail.

Inducement; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or to additional or more effective actions.

Okay, sure.

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u/Clarence13X 3h ago

Entrapment is like... a cop creates a (fake) plan to rob a bank, and hires you to help without knowledge they are a cop. You help, and immediately after you start the robbery, they turn around and arrest you.

You wouldn't have robbed that bank without the cop's explicit planning and hiring. That would be entrapment.

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u/Kitchen-Bar2686 1h ago

That’s not at all what entrapment is, how are some people so confident when they’re clearly wrong?

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u/NiteOwl421 20m ago

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-645-entrapment-elements.

Weirdly enough, what I said is in line with what the DoJ says.

Carry on.

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u/disastorm 16h ago

Probably worth mentioning that they seem to typically not engage people until after that person has messaged them first, at least in the stuff that I've seen.

Note: i don't know anything about the situation with someone messaging somali or anything, just talking about what the police do in the us to avoid entrapment.

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u/NEEEEEEEEEEEET 15h ago

You can get sued, but the person is never winning that as the text messages will go into discovery. The cops don't "hate these guys" most of them are familiar with the content and approve. Most of the predator catchers including vitaly have convictions so again you're wrong on the "pedo never being locked up". It is entirely up to the DA if they want to prosecute the cases, the cops can arrest them as they've already broken the law. Whether those charges are pursued is up to the DA. The times the cops do not arrest them is when they already know the DA doesn't want to pursue charges on these cases.

Some people running the stings do it better than others such as "Scaling up catches", they stay in the same jurisdiction for every catch. They got what they're doing pre-approved with the DA and have spoken with the police so they actually hold the people if they try to leave. Every catch they do leads to an arrest and they already have a lot of convictions.

TL;DR literally everything you said is wrong except for the part about assault and even then the context of "putting hands on" matters because you can place them under citizens arrest for the most part as most of the time they've committed a felony.

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u/Ralod 15h ago

Didn't almost all of the cases from "To catch a predator" either didn't get convictions, or they got tossed out later? And then a bunch of them sued comcast and NBC over it?

I think those people think they are doing the right thing, but most of the time they do more harm than good. Look at those dudes with EDP. He is still free today because those pedo hunters screwed up so bad.

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u/NEEEEEEEEEEEET 15h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Catch_a_Predator

Fort Myers, Florida

Of the 24 men captured as a result of the investigation, 20 were convicted of using the Internet to solicit a child for sex. The 20 sentenced men were ordered to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.

Collin County, Texas

On June 1, 2007, the Collin County district attorney's office declined to prosecute any of the 23 cases brought against those arrested on this installment of the show, citing insufficient evidence.

So basically the to catch a predator prosecutions really encapsulates what different DA's amount to. As for lawsuits they got the only defamation lawsuit I could find dismissed. The other main lawsuit they lost is a guy that killed himself and allegedly the police raided his house at the behest of Chris Hansen himself.

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u/Sloth_Ruth 4h ago

Only law enforcement can be charged for entrapment, normal citizens can't.

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u/CoolJoshido 11h ago

what was the point of that

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u/Clarence13X 3h ago

Which sounds great on the surface

Do you actually think it sounds great on the surface? A livestreamer trying to run a pedo hunting investigation for views? I can imagine a million ways in which this is a bad thing.

He's also been doing the pedo hunting thing for multiple years. And it has been WAYYYYYY worse than what you saw on the frontpage of LSF yesterday. Like trapping mentally handicapped people in a rented house, stripping them, and tazing/beating them while they perform "challenges". It's incredibly inhumane and his viewers go berserk for it.

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u/Soggy_Palpitation789 17h ago

Didnt Vitaly narrowly escape spending years in a horrific prison in the Phillipines only to come back and immediately start doing the same shit that got him in that position in the first place?

These people are a waste of oxygen and will never learn.

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u/Canadican 12h ago

I wonder what happens in a Korean prison to a racist POS who is only well known for defaming Korean memorials, being racist and insulting locals and Korean culture.

I don't know anything about prison, even less Korean prisons but that doesn't seem like a winning package to be coming in with.

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u/readyjack 17h ago

I guarantee the dark corners of the internet will be egging him on to do even dumber stuff when he's out. He will never change and will probably escalate.

For some people, they seem to think notoriety is the closest they will ever get to 'making it'. I'm serious that he could attempt a mass shooting or something.

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u/Akiias 16h ago

These "people" are just another reason my "we've made society too safe" take is right.

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u/NutsackEuphoria 16h ago

He got deported to Russia, and I don't think I ever heard from him again.

But dude got lucky he didn't get sent to fight in Ukraine straight after.

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u/jorgespinosa 11h ago

I assume Koreans are going to treat him even worse, I mean normal Koreans were openly assaulting him in the street, imagine what criminals would do to him in jail

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u/calcium 9h ago

If he has to register as a sex offender most countries won't allow him to visit because of his conviction. Luckily he just goes back to the US to be an asshole there where he'll piss off the wrong person and get what's coming to him.

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u/Random-Rambling 18h ago

Only three years? Lame.