I keep seeing videos lately of grown men posing as children online and baiting individuals to public spaces and either assaulting them or recording/exposing them for content. While I don’t mind the idea of a predator being outed, the idea of grown adults posing as children online seems unsavory to me. Especially if their end goal isn’t to protect children, and is to provide content for views.
Obviously, being a child predator is wildly immoral and illegal and their actions are not what’s being debated.
The way I’ve seen it being done it certainly is. They care more about their viewer counts than punishing wrongdoers so much so they quite often accuse innocent people and then harass them based on incorrect assumptions instead of actual hard evidence which they could have taken to the authorities if they actually had it.
I am pretty for vigilantism; but only if they are even more thorough in their investigation than the police to be absolutely sure they get the right person. Which only seems to happen in fiction.