A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
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Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
#2I know a lot of researchers who avoid 4chan due to fear. Given that context, in some sense this seems to be a bold step.
Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
#3I know a lot of researchers who avoid 4chan due to fear. Given that context, in some sense this seems to be a bold step.
You know a 'lot'(!) of researchers who avoid 4chan? What exactly would they be researching or avoiding to research?
Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
#4This paper was shared on /pol/, here's a link to the (archived) thread if you're interested in reading the responses.
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#5Can someone explain to me why they keep focussing on 4chan and not 'chans' in general? AFAIK 8chan's /pol/ has had a bigger impact this time around because they censor less. (Not censoring doxx information and such)
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#6If you look at the remnants of the earlier chans (created between 1 and 3 years after 4chan) which never really gained much momentum, you'll see that they had a much different culture at the time. In a way I wish we could return to this idea of the "small chan", as a way of escaping the grinding politics and hate culture that's on some boards (like /pol/) which tends to leak over (jokingly or not) to the other boards.
Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
#7This paper was shared on /pol/, here's a link to the (archived) thread if you're interested in reading the responses. http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/92760043/
Some of the replies to the thread show mistakes in the paper.
For example, Zimbabwe is marked as very active and very hateful. But it's probably just people with a VPN: doing that to get a "controversial" or "funny" country flag is a thing.
Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
#8How does it take eight people to write this paper?
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#9Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
#10Handing over ICANN control to the UN was a mistake.
I have very little faith that this won't be used to censor free speech in the not-so-distant future.