Anti-pedophile activism

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Anti-pedophile activism encompasses social actions against pedophiles. It also includes acts of anti-pedophile citizen vigilantism conducted by vigilante groups, some of which have operated alongside government agencies in countries such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Activities performed by anti-pedophile vigilante groups have included harassment, including against families of people accused of crimes as well as people wrongly accused, doxing, blackmailing and physical attacks, with some people being killed or having died by suicide after being accused, for which reasons such groups have been widely condemned by law-enforcement and government bodies. In the 2010s, several vigilante groups were established in countries including the United States and United Kingdom, many of which were inspired by To Catch a Predator, an American reality television show that had worked alongside vigilante group Perverted-Justice until being cancelled following the suicide of American...

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