Michael Macartney, 50, confessed to the BBC his role in an extreme monkey torture network.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/RfM6D

  • finthechat
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    279 months ago

    He will formally make a plea later this month and is facing up to five years in prison.

    Only up to 5 years…

    • BruceTwarzen
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      139 months ago

      Good thing he’s white and they didn’t find any weed. Poor guy wouldn’t see the daylight again

    • BrikoXOPM
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      79 months ago

      The most fucked up thing is that he’s getting busted for sharing the videos with others. If he just kept it on its own device, he would have walked free.

  • @chemical_cutthroat
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    259 months ago

    That picture. Jesus Christ. In 20 years there will be studies on all of the red flags people willfully ignored.

  • ArugulaZ
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    189 months ago

    Global monkey torture network! Try saying that five times fast!

    Also, I’m a little surprised that monkey torture is popular enough to have its own network of fans. Where are they gonna hold Global Monkey Torturecon?

    • livus
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      119 months ago

      Probably serious overlap with CSAM rings.

      You don’t seem like an edgelord so I’m thinking maybe you don’t know much about this case.

      • ArugulaZ
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        9 months ago

        Well, no. I’m more a Dork Web (federated) kind of guy than a Dark Web (holy shit this will get me put in jail) kind of guy.

        I’m genuinely puzzled that this is a thing. Some people enjoy sadism, but this is a very specific flavor, one that would be kind of difficult and expensive to maintain. Hey, let’s go get a monkey to torture. Who says that? Who wants that?

        • livus
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          179 months ago

          Sociopathic sadists and there is a sexual component, simians are homo sapiens adjacent.

          We actually used to have a problem with them reaching out on Reddit. The Youtube community as well had to keep reporting it.

          They are a lot like pedophiles, they will introduce the topic and elicit opinions but what they were really doing was trying to drive likeminded people to their youtubes which were sort of gateways to the other stuff.

          As for the specificity it’s the same sort of structure as the SEA child abuse livecam rings insofar as the organizer outsources it to SEA countries where they have easier access to victims.

          There’s nothing funny about it, it’s absolutely horrific forms of animal abuse and this guy should be looking at a lot more than 5 years.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        Same. Until reading comments, I really thought the group was referring to themselves as digital monkeys, and they bullied people online to the point of it being torture.
        After reading comments. Well - I’ll still open the article, but I’ll only skim it.

    • @Son_of_dad
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      19 months ago

      I didn’t want to read it, was the whole point to just torture the monkeys? They weren’t doing it for any other purpose??

      • livus
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        19 months ago

        They were getting money but the paying customers just wanted to see extreme animal cruelty yes.

  • ArugulaZ
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    89 months ago

    Who ever thought a Confederate would be capable of such cruelty? No, sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face through that one.

  • @aseriesoftubes
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    79 months ago

    In this scumbag’s case, I’m OK with an eye for an eye.