The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
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The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
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Re: The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
#2> hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan
not as hate-filled as Twitter. I don't think people like him have actually been on these sites.
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#3Of course everybody knows the right way to convince conspiracy theorists that they're wrong is to go after them.
I don't see what's wrong with having internet trash bins. At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere.
I'm not from the US, the only mentions of those sites I have ever encountered was journalists making a few articles about them.
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#4I read 8chan and 4chan sometimes, not /b/ and not /pol/, I am more interested in the other boards that often care for or start open source projects.
I am very disappointed with people that want to shut down these places, often because of false allegations (for example the attempt to shut down 8chan for child porn, that later were found out to be a false flag, the person accusing them were also the one that posted the porn in first place)
Re: The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
#5I read 8chan and 4chan sometimes, not /b/ and not /pol/, I am more interested in the other boards that often care for or start open source projects. I am very disappointed with people that want to shut down these places, often because of false allegations (for example the attempt to shut down 8chan for child porn, that later were found out to be a false flag, the person accusing them were also the one that posted the…
I also spend a lot of time on 4chan, and visit 8chan occasionally. There is a universe of difference between them, and calls to shut down 4chan are much rarer and more ignorant of the content than calls to shut down 8chan. It's important not to conflate them.
Re: The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
#6> hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan not as hate-filled as Twitter. I don't think people like him have actually been on these sites.
I have, a lot. Your comparison is nowhere near realistic.
Re: The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
#7Of course everybody knows the right way to convince conspiracy theorists that they're wrong is to go after them. I don't see what's wrong with having internet trash bins. At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere. I'm not from the US, the only mentions of those sites I have ever encountered was journalists making a few articles about them.
The goal is not to convince conspiracy theorists that they are wrong, the goal is to prevent them from hurting people or society and, to that end, keep the dangerous ones from organizing anonymously online in large numbers (I honestly don't know if that's possible).
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#8Gosh, I'm conflicted. I upvoted the submission for the interesting HN comments that are likely to appear based on it but also so, so, soooo didn't want to upvote a Krebs article and give him the Ads revenue from the page views.
Re: The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
#9Gosh, I'm conflicted. I upvoted the submission for the interesting HN comments that are likely to appear based on it but also so, so, soooo didn't want to upvote a Krebs article and give him the Ads revenue from the page views.
>but also so, so, soooo didn't want to upvote a Krebs article and give him the Ads revenue from the page views.
what's wrong with kerbs?
Re: The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
#10Are ip address blocks registered to defunct companies a relatively common thing? Clearly ARIN isn't regularly checking whether the owners of ip address blocks are still in business, so I'd imagine there are plenty of other blocks that belong to defunct companies.