The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

Post by s9w » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 4:14 AM UTC

theplague42 wrote: post #114

s9w wrote: post #73

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It depends on who you are on what you define as hate. The sites both have a very clear political preference. And both are harsh towards the other. But the chans due to the way the work have less of a vendetta style activism and mostly ignore or ridicule outsiders. There's some rough language - I would say on average the chans are certainly more direct and less signaling, but the lows are pretty equal for both sites.…

One regularly talks about killing Jews and one doesn't.

Post by octoberfranklin » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 4:27 AM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #195

holidayacct wrote: post #171

Pay close attention to social media companies and privately run social networks and forums. I used to work for a major social media network that was growing and eventually stalled. If you run a social network and it gets popular you're going to run into major problems that no one talks about. 1.) Multiple governments, private organization and luddites send people to your company to compromise the source code. 2.) Peo…

I didn't understand the 4th. Besides competitor networks, what would anyone have against another social network being started?

Post by octoberfranklin » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 4:36 AM UTC

Bayart wrote: post #203

gruez wrote: post #10

Are 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.

I understand that being articulated around old school paper administrations rather than automated APIs that stuff can easily be ignored (especially in places like the US where legislation is highly fragmented), but you'd think that the starvation for IPv4 would be a good enough incentive for people to go after those low-hanging fruits.

Post by tptacek » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 5:17 AM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #201

tptacek wrote: post #91

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"Destroying people with facts and logic" isn't how human psychology works (in fact: attempts to do that often harden existing beliefs), and without that axiom I think the rest of this analysis falls apart.

> "Destroying people with facts and logic" isn't how human psychology works Completely agree that this isn't how human psychology works. However, in debate (which is what is happening here), facts and logic can indeed be used to vanquish one's counterpart. When the facts are in favour of one side of the debate, it is fairly typical that they will leverage them in the debate. If you observe a debate where one side doe…

Post by octoberfranklin » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 6:17 AM UTC

otterlicious wrote: post #218

octoberfranklin wrote: post #214

Regarding ARIN listing a defunct entity as owner: keep in mind that TONS of telecom infrastructure is listed as being owned by defunct companies that were acquired/merged into other companies, or simply reincorporated in a new jurisdiction. For example, the concrete blockhouse where my neighborhood's DSL modems live sites on land owned by an entity that hasn't existed for a decade. This is according to the county aud…

Acquired isn't defunct. The archaically named entity that owns your local telco cabinet almost certainly still exists: http://www.centurylink.com/static/PDF/AboutUs/DoingBusiness/...