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It's pandering. Orkut was massively big in Brazil when I was in my late teens/early 20s, it always had hate groups, brigading groups, stalkers and so on. Disi
by piva00 4y ago
It's pandering.
Orkut was massively big in Brazil when I was in my late teens/early 20s, it always had hate groups, brigading groups, stalkers and so on.
Disinformation was rampant, message chains such as "spread this to 5 of your friends so they know the truth" with blatant wrong information were extremely common. It was more innocent though, it always looked like it was just some teens trolling and spreading bullshit for giggles.
Even more it was a side-project from Orkut at Google I'm very sure they didn't have the capacity to moderate millions of Brazilian users speaking an uncommon language, with tons of internet-speak, slangs, etc.
- KennyBlanken 4y ago
- prvit 4y agoAccusing moots 4chan of swatting people is a weird retcon. I bet you can't name a single instance.
- KennyBlanken 4y agohttps://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/day-parkland-survivor-david-hogg-got-swatted-trolls-shared-his-address-4chan-and-8chan https://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/day-parkland-surviv... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/06/06/1769711/-David-Hoggs-swatting-may-have-started-on-4chan https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/06/06/1769711/-David-H... https://www.gawker.com/5824545/internet-prankster-sends-swat-team-to-cyberbullying-experts-house https://www.gawker.com/5824545/internet-prankster-sends-swat... https://books.google.com/books?id=sRsxDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT16&lpg=PT16&dq=%224chan%22+swatting&ots=VrXCTHrvjv&sig=ACfU3U3AeVPdOfQAbutoZQGRdbFg7FxsmA&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%224chan%22%20swatting&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=sRsxDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT16&lpg=P... https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article257253377.html https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article257253377.... https://psc.apcointl.org/2011/08/01/swatting-9-1-1-hoax-calls-add-pressure-danger/ https://psc.apcointl.org/2011/08/01/swatting-9-1-1-hoax-call...
- prvit 4y agoOut of those, only the Aftab case predates moot selling 4chan. That one was done by partyvan crowd who had been driven off from 4chan by that time. It would’ve been 888chan, 711chan or rockstararmy. Of course, journalists don’t care about such distinctions and will group all of them together as “4chan”. https://web.archive.org/web/20110902152829/http://partyvan.info/wiki/Operation:_Cyberbully https://web.archive.org/web/20110902152829/http://partyvan.i... Blaming 4chan was just a part of the fun, the mods could ban these threads and the people posting in them, but they’d still get the blame. And FWIW, your other links tend to be more about 8chan than (post-moot) 4chan.