Where's James Hind?
For years, I found myself responding to the online presence of someone known as "James Hind." Under that name, criticism flowed freely—not only towards me, but towards many other people. The persona appeared confident, outspoken and willing to make serious allegations about others from behind a screen. From my perspective, everything changed when I began exposing blogs written and published by James Hind in November 2018, where he confessed to pretending to be a 12 year old boy online, who spoke with other children as young as 11 years old, and who allowed a paedophile groomer to carry on grooming, because he didn't like the thought of ruining a paedophile's life to be on his mind. What followed, in my view, was a remarkable shift. Instead of "James Hind" being presented as a single individual, he made claims that the name was merely a fictional persona, a collective identity of false narratives. The implication was that there had never been one real James ...
