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> a quick search for "The only good Republican is a dead Republican" returns a lot of hits for the "[...] dead Democrat" quote and almost none for the search phrase This is muddled…

I don't know how common it was, but I found this in the first comment section I looked: > Could it be the Chosenbergs? Although a small group, they seem to control the majority of …

Like I said before, I'm critical of censorship. I used to be a free speech absolutist. I think I'm not quite an absolutist any more (using 8chan for years disillusioned me a little…

Radicalization happens through words. You can ban radicalization by banning words. That won't completely get rid of it, but it can make it a lot less accessible, which reduces the …

Deciding to commit mass murder rarely happens in a vacuum. It typically happens when you surround yourself all day by people who tell you that mass murder is a good idea. Radicaliz…

8chan's /pol/ is much larger than /leftypol/. I believe it's about tied with /v/, and those two are the largest boards. There are many basically innocent parts of 8chan, but /pol/ …

> Each board is individually ran and the global moderators won't get involved unless it's content that's blatantly illegal. That's true for almost every other board, but /pol/ isn'…

It's still more work, because some people will get upset that they're not allowed to promote genocide. It still has edge cases (I've seen some hairy examples from Facebook moderati…

> They will allow Racism, but actively moderate out Spam. Reddit used to be like that as far as I know, and though there's plenty to criticize I don't think Reddit was intentionall…

/pol/ is not an organization. It's a loose community of people, almost none of whom have done anything worse than expressing terrible opinions. Shootings are incentivized by /pol/ …

Jim Watkins owns a lot of things, including 2channel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel ), a pig farm, and a VPS/VPN/webhosting provider. It's unlikely that those audiobooks …

> I'm guessing/assuming that 8chan is an anything goes censorship free community (like 4chan was/is?). And maybe it's not explicitly in support of racist ideals but instead refuses…

That's fair. They're not treated the same, though. Using /pol/ is considered acceptable, but posting as if you're on /pol/ often isn't. Using /leftypol/ at all isn't considered acc…

I didn't put it clearly, and not entirely correctly either. Sorry about that. To the extent the site has an overarching culture, it's right-wing. There are boards outside the overa…

/leftypol/ is insulated. Mentions of it on other boards are usually hostile. Its existence tells you a lot about the consistency of the free speech policy, but it tells you little …

/pol/ is around five times as active as /leftypol/. 8chan's overarching culture is right-wing. Some boards aren't part of the overarching culture, but /pol/ is, and people are talk…

The "ip" field used to hold the plain IP address, so it's still called that, even though it now holds a hash. The post() function fills it in like so: $query->bindValue(':ip', isse…

Tor posters are assigned an ID of "000000". I only see two posts with that ID in the screenshots in the document.

The fork lives at https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB . IPs are hashed at https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB/blob/master/inc/functions.p... . Hashing them was part of the point of the f…