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If you own a site that has systemic issues with child pornography sharing and other illegal material, you probably deserve it.

• throwaway45349 6y ago
  4chan is a shady place, but it is definitely not a bastion of child porn. The owners do not allow anything like that.
  • Jenk 6y ago
    /b/ has been an epicentre for decades.
    • cbozeman 6y ago
      That is total horseshit. Yes, there are points in time when posters have attempted to post child pornography there, but it gets taken down swiftly and gets reported to moderators as swiftly as its posted. Your "epicentre" of child pornography on the Internet is Facebook, not 4chan.[1] [1]: https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/213-worst-epidemic/ https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/213-worst-epidemic/
      • Jenk 6y ago
        an epicentre, not the epicentre.
        • gsich 6y ago
          Epicentre implies singular. Having multiple epicentres would defy the definition of a "centre".
          • Jenk 6y ago
            No, it doesn't.
            • gsich 6y ago
              Then you are using it wrong.
  • throwaway35i2 6y ago
    I run a 4chan archive, fireden.net, I don't archive /b/ and my #1 reason I need to take down things is because of child porn, to the point that I honestly think about why i still run it anymore.
    • ttt0 6y ago
      I suspect you'd have a similar problem if you decided to run a twitter archive.
  • claudiawerner 6y ago
    GP was probably referring to some part of 8chan, not 4chan.
    • gsich 6y ago
      I don't think they allow that there either.
• offby37years 6y ago
  Any site that allows unfettered user contributions will eventually be plagued with such. That includes Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
• Blikkentrekker 6y ago
  It didn't have such an issue. 8chan being dropped showed well how cancel culture works, and how in the court of public opinion one is found guilty not on evidence, but on sensationalist news articles that outright lie, sitting free from the pains of perjury and cross-examination. I have not once in my life seen this child pornography or far-right content on 8chan that these news articles claimed infested it; one would have to be very lucky for the former to see it before a moderator removed it, and for the latter one would have to specifically browse niche boards that have very little activity compared to the big boards, which are simply about video games, lolcat image macros, and dating advice. Have you ever seen child pornography on 8chan or 4chan? have you ever browsed them?
  • Stevvo 6y ago
    8chan had the infamous /loli/ , it was dedicated entirely to child pornography. The only rule was it had to be 3D rendered or drawn/painted as opposed to photographic/video.
    • Blikkentrekker 6y ago
      So not child pornography by the legal definition of U.S.A. law and most other jurisdictions. By your definition of child pornography, i.r.c., and Mangadex also feature child pornography, as well as Google search results and most mainstream pornography websites.
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  • Jenk 6y ago
    yes, and yes.
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• jimbob45 6y ago
  I’m not saying that they deserve it or not. I’m just saying the method by which they were brought offline was effective.