| ▲ | vlyan 14 hours ago |
| 8chan's /pol/ wasn't any different than 4chan's. the reason why the 4 is tolerated but the 8 got axed is that 4 is a honeypot and 8 wasn't. |
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| ▲ | filoleg 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > the reason why the 4 is tolerated but the 8 got axed is that 4 is a honeypot and 8 wasn't That's certainly a take. My personal take is that 4chan actually complies with the US laws, specifically the ones around promptly removing+reporting any illegal content that the US cares about (e.g., terrorism threats/CSAM/etc.), and 8chan doesn't. Out of curiosity, what makes you consider 4chan to be a honeypot, as opposed to it just being a platform that simply complies with the relevant laws? I will admit, I've spent barely a few minutes on 8 in my lifetime, so I am not equipped to judge the nuance of their situation much. With 4 though, it's been an on-and-off thing for me over the past ~15 years. |
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| ▲ | vlyan 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | we've seen several websites that do not break US law get evicted by registrars, ISPs, DDoS protection services, and other Internet landlords. 4chan miraculously survived multiple mass hysteria periods of the past decade without (iirc) any major disruptions. same as Russian 2ch -- miraculously untouched by Russia's rapid North Koreaization even though its /pol/ is overwhelmingly anti-regime. | | |
| ▲ | 0dayz 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | The pirate bay is still up despite being taken down, is this now also a honeypot? | | |
| ▲ | SmashDan 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The Pirate Bay has had legal issues, been raided and taken down in the past. Has 4chan has any issues like this? | | | |
| ▲ | podocarp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is the current pirate bay even still the original, or just a mirror or someone trying to mimic the old one? |
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| ▲ | kodoman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's was mostly a slightly more edgy 4chan with actually some more varied boards and wider range of political views (/leftypol/) was a thing If I remember. So mostly dumb teens and later the whole Q-Anon mentally ill boomers who took over once the board was brought by one of them much to displeasure of the edge teens. In short if that is a threat to a government and a society it's a weak government and society, comparing it to Al-Qaeda or some kind of comparable threat to anything government or nation is crazy. | |
| ▲ | gaudystead 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Regarding the honeypot allegations, I'm guessing they're referring to the connections between 4chan's founder, Christopher Poole, aka "moot", and Jeffrey Epstein: https://www.ms.now/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-4chan-chris-poole | | |
| ▲ | ipaddr 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That article tells me 4chan wasn't a honeypot but used by Epstein for his chaos or at least he thought about using it. | |
| ▲ | feshbach 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | sicktriple 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | MSNBC is far left? Next you'll tell me Joe Biden is a Maoist. | | |
| ▲ | ipaddr 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | MSNBC is as far left as Fox news is far right. | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is just not a true statement. | |
| ▲ | sicktriple 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There is much farther left than left-libs. The U.S. doesn't get anywhere near as left as it goes. MSNBC is center-left, at most. This is a very right wing country. |
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| ▲ | cholantesh 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I suspect they're a bot, fwiw. | | | |
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| ▲ | 0dayz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Only that 8 was and is just a giant astroturfer for Watkins. |
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| ▲ | meowface 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 1. It is extremely likely neither 8chan /pol/ nor 4chan /pol/ were or are honeypots. 2. Untrue. I heavily used both (not as a right-winger; just as a decades-long anonymous imageboard user who sometimes finds it fun to rile people up in /pol/ boards). 8chan's was a lot worse and was shut down for a reason. |
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| ▲ | jchook 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wonder why Epstein was communicating with 4chan's founder in 2011... |
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| ▲ | gfdd 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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