Tom Simon
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Friends who meet via the internet and all that.
It's able to catapult people who want to be in media, who don't need to play the game and stuff like that, but you can kind of raise your own pirate ship flag and have something like this happening.
The internet, I think, on balance, a good thing.
But the internet has very dark corners of people who are doing depraved and horrible things on the internet.
You ever heard of the phenomenon of animal crush videos?
No.
It's as bad as it sounds.
Basically crushing animals under your boot and filming it and then trading those videos and engaging in those videos.
It's terrible, terrible.
What's wrong with people?
People are terrible.
People are terrible.
And in 2010, the U.S.
Congress made the creation of animal crush videos a federal crime.
And President Obama signed that into law.
And so it's an actual federal crime now to be involved in animal crush videos.
Rod Bedra, maybe it's Bedra, B-E-D-R-A, was a technology teacher at Lyndon McKinley High School in Columbus, Ohio.
And he had a secret life that his family, his friends, his students, and his administrators did not know existed.
He was a moderator on a secret online group of men on Telegram, where all roads lead to if you're interested in online crime.
Telegram as a texting app is benign, but the groups on Telegram are just disgusting.