Wrong! Many of them solicited sex from minors. The fact that they missed and got a police officer instead of an actual minor is beside the point.
If the police ad did not exist, some of them might not be soliciting anyone. You don’t know what would have happened.
This is essentially creating a psychological test to try and predict what someone would have done. Then dragnetting everyone that failed their test in an imaginary situation.
Bad legal precedent and similar to how the FBI creates terrorists by planting agents to convince idiots online to carry out imaginary attacks. Many of them would not have done anything without talking to that particular FBI agent.
With technology, you’ll start seeing this concept deployed more often and the possibilities for diminished freedom are terrifying