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One of the pillars of the old, non-infested-by-normies Internet, still stands. Good news.
Keeping a website that has openly catered to pedophiles and nazis online is hardly "good news", unless you are a pedophile or a nazi. It won't matter for long though. The userbase has had its trust shattered, and this blogpost makes it clear that 4chan has no ability to defend itself from future attacks, which are absolutely coming.
4chan is controversial and often very ugly, but it is one of the few old school message boards that allows free speech left. Like the ACLU used to do, we should help them stay online and exercising their free speech, even if it is annoying and gross.
As a long time ACLU financial supporter, I could not disagree more. 4chan is not and never was a bastion of free speech. Comparing 4chan to the ACLU is like comparing a toddler smearing shit on a wall to art. To practice free speech requires an intent to express a point of view. 4chan had to point of view and was just a shithole.
Excellent, now we can ban speech we don’t like by just saying it doesn’t actually express a point of view
Does 4chan contain anything worth checking nowadays? I remember visiting the site as a teenager to check rage comics, and even for the abrasion of the internet of the time it was too shocking for anything beyond an occasional look - random gore, pictures of underage girls, racist tirades and the like. I know some people enjoy that Wild West, lack of rules environment for some reason, but is there any content that’s w…
One of the pillars of the old, non-infested-by-normies Internet, still stands. Good news.
One of the pillars of the old, non-infested-by-normies Internet, still stands. Good news.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a long time ACLU financial supporter, I could not disagree more. 4chan is not and never was a bastion of free speech. Comparing 4chan to the ACLU is like comparing a toddler smearing shit on a wall to art. To practice free speech requires an intent to express a point of view. 4chan had to point of view and was just a shithole.
> To practice free speech requires an intent to express a point of view Excellent, now we can ban speech we don’t like by just saying it doesn’t actually express a point of view
One of the pillars of the old, non-infested-by-normies Internet, still stands. Good news.
I think it’s moreso that when a normal person enters 4chan they either decide to get out while they still can or stay and become whatever the opposite of a “normie” is.
Wouldn’t say the latter sounds like it would be worth it at all though.
One of the pillars of the old, non-infested-by-normies Internet, still stands. Good news.