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

A ringleader in a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been charged by US federal prosecutors.

Michael Macartney, 50, who went by the alias “Torture King”, was charged in Virginia with conspiracy to create and distribute animal-crushing videos.

Mr Macartney was one of three key distributors identified by the BBC Eye team during a year-long investigation into sadistic monkey torture groups.

Two women have also been charged in the UK following the investigation.

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Mr Macartney, a former motorcycle gang member who previously spent time in prison, ran several chat groups for monkey torture enthusiasts from around the world on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
    21·
    8 months ago

    Its not whataboutism. If you want to apply “killing is good against individuals of a species responsible for environmental destruction” then you should apply it to the biggest offender. Or be a hypocrite I guess. Your choice.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 months ago

      There’s nothing hypocritical about it.

      Two wrongs don’t make a right, didn’t your mommy ever teach you that?

      That is literally whataboutism.

      Deer population has to be managed, or entire environments will die. You won’t get out of that being a fact by going “well but what about corporate pollution?!1?”

      If you were accused of murder and asked to provide an alibi, you wouldn’t get off by saying “well what about Jeffrey Dahmer?”

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          12·
          8 months ago

          You are quite literally purposefully ignoring the actual argument that you engaged with yourself.

          No-one postulated anything.

          It’s an irrefutable fact that deer population control saves human and animal lives. You can’t even acknowledge that.