Actually you do have a point, looking back over the operational history of 4chan interaction with law enforcement wasn't that unusual; during that canada van at

Actually you do have a point, looking back over the operational history of 4chan interaction with law enforcement wasn't that unusual; during that canada van attack thing the entire site went down while police collected evidence and the response was basically: https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/171969632/#q171978582 https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/171969632/#q171978582. I don't know why they decided to escalate to a search warrant.