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I was about to ask why this is on HN, but really why is it anywhere except at the bottom of a stack of court proceedings? I have a hard time imagining anyone re
by powrtoch 16y ago
I was about to ask why this is on HN, but really why is it anywhere except at the bottom of a stack of court proceedings? I have a hard time imagining anyone reading through this and not wanting those 10 minutes back.
- bdickason 16y agoI think the fact that some judge/prosecutor would be pulling up 4chan in a courtroom and pointing out pages fascinates me. 'Mr. Moot can you please verify that this hentai tentacle rape scene is in line with the 4chan rules' etc :) Not a big 4chan fan myself but the idea of website owners dealing with such questionable/taboo content in a court of law is quite interesting.
- powrtoch 16y agoI think if the article actually contained anything like 'Mr. Moot can you please verify that this hentai tentacle rape scene is in line with the 4chan rules', it would have been, while still not particularly relevant HN material, actually entertaining enough to be worth my time. Instead I just listened to a description of how to pull an activity log by IP address.
- steveklabnik 16y agoThere are a few gems in there. "What does 'newfag' mean?" and "Rick Astley is a singer, is that correct?"
- steveklabnik 16y agoIt's interesting to see a world that I rarely interact with (law) interacting with a world that I often interact with (server logs, rickrolls, and /b/). While the actual content wasn't that interesting, it's the meta that is; how does a lawyer explain /b/ to a judge? What do they consider important? Where does the abstraction leak, what gets oversimplified, and how well is moot able to explain it?