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This documentary will make you delete your entire search history

by Anike Jacobs

If you are avid user of online search engines, you might want to delete your entire search history soon, all thanks to the new HBO documentary “Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop.”

The new documentary directed by Erin Lee Carr takes on the case of Gilberto Valle, a former NYPD police officer who allegedly cooked up a scheme in an online chat room to kidnap, rape, and eat dozens of women.

Thought Crimes Cannibal Cop

Valle was fired from his job as an NYPD officer after his cannibal chat-room conversations were discovered.

He was arrested and convicted in 2013 for this online scheme that he never planned to actualy carry out.

He says it was a sick fantasy that he never planned to actually carry out.

The film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and debuts on HBO on Monday, is used to present a bigger, more pressing problem about internet culture in general.

Throughout the film, excerpts from Valle’s many chats about cannibalism pop up on screen. Many of these conversations occurred on a cannibal role-playing fantasy site.

Unlike previous true-crime documentaries, “Thought Crimes” leaves you with nobody to fully blame.

Instead the viewer is left to think about how people are now much more willing to post personal, incriminating information about themselves for the whole world to see. Overall, HBO’s latest documentary makes a good case that people should be a lot more cautious about what they search for online.

Check out the trailer

[H/T Business Insider]

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