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> “When only the rejects use the sites of course it's going to be full of bad content.” The problem with this theory is that 4chan is older than both Twitter a
by pavlov 4y ago
> “When only the rejects use the sites of course it's going to be full of bad content.”
The problem with this theory is that 4chan is older than both Twitter and Facebook.
If unmoderated speech created an inherently better platform, surely 4chan would have captured the market a long time ago and cut off commercial alternatives like Craigslist did.
- BeFlatXIII 4y ago…or capturing the market would have flooded it in inane speech, rendering it no better (or different) than anywhere else.
- Dylan16807 4y agoAnd 4chan got much worse over time, there's no reason it had to be rejects at all. The toxicity was entirely self directed.
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- ryandrake 4y agoDidn't 4chan start off largely as castaways from Something Awful? Your point is valid though. 4chan had an enormous amount of time to become the shining star of how great an absolute[1] free speech site could be, but still manages to be a cesspool. This should be a neon hint, but people keep thinking that they're going to invent the one free speech site that doesn't end up toxic. 1: Also as others point out, even 4chan moderates, however lightly.