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

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

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

  • finthechat@kbin.social
    29·
    9 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…

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      81·
      9 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.

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
    18·
    9 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@kbin.social
      11·
      9 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@kbin.social
        16·
        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@kbin.social
          17·
          9 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.

          • Che Banana@beehaw.org
            7·
            9 months ago

            Jeesus tapdancing cristo, mods know this shit, see this shit (and worse!) and don’t get paid?

            humans suck

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 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@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 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@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

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

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
    10·
    9 months ago

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

  • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Holy fuck. That’s something that needs to be eradicated.

    Just when you thought humans couldn’t be more shitty.