> Some of it is benign, like cat memes and the site LOLCats. But much of it is offensive. :) It's clever sleight of mouth to counterpose "benign" with "offensi

> Some of it is benign, like cat memes and the site LOLCats. But much of it is offensive. :) It's clever sleight of mouth to counterpose "benign" with "offensive," implying that offensive isn't benign. Sticks and stones. As a visitor for over a decade, I can say almost all of 4chan is benign as it's recipes, endless blather about anime and video games, fashion and music. Typical teenage stuff. The big difference between 4chan and most other places is the threshold for banning. In most forums, e.g. HN, if you speak against the forum, you get banned. On 4chan, you just get ignored and people get exposed and steeled against your ignorant behavior. It's really the logical conclusion of "not in my backyard" style management. If you keep pushing people out of your neighborhood, they'll end up somewhere and that place is 4chan. And typically people grow up and out of it. This article is testing peoples' reactions to a possible "victory for cleanliness" in the HRC victory. I imagine the center-right (which call themselves Democrats) will enjoy a good bit of muscle-flexing and creative interpretation of "freedom of speech" in the next 4-8 years. Finally, getting condemned by the Anti-Defamation League is not difficult. http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League