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I find it absolutely ridiculous that you keep telling people that they haven't visited 4chan and are wrong. This is hackernews. Most of us are in our 30s and we

by swozey 3y ago

I find it absolutely ridiculous that you keep telling people that they haven't visited 4chan and are wrong. This is hackernews. Most of us are in our 30s and were perpetually online during the rise of 4chan and are not ignorant whatsoever to what chan boards are like. The last time I went there it was full of CP and I lose all respect for people who use that site no matter how you try to spin it.

throwaway675309 3y ago
I'm in my 30s and I don't know which boards you frequented to see so much CP because that was not my experience at all. Most of the criticism around the alleged tons of CP seemed to come from people who had an ideological ax to grind against the site in general. Sounds like a "you problem."
- swozey 3y ago
  Yeah, you're right. We all have an axe to grind against 4chan. We're all making up that we saw CP on it. I'm a former Goon. I've been all over the trashy parts of the internet. It doesn't benefit me whatsoever to lie about seeing CP on 4chan. I even remember exactly what the picture I saw the last time I went to it looked like. It is seared into my memory. That was my last visit to that trash site.
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - wpietri 3y ago
    My sympathies. I never spent any time on 4chan. But between doing some desktop publishing and helping friends with abuse on the first web-based chat, I saw a bunch of things I could not unsee. It took me maybe 15 years for that stuff to not come back as what they call "involuntary autobiographical memories". It has now faded to the point that I can't bring the full images back at all, just hazy, untraumatizing vague versions. I hope you get there soon!
  - mtrower 3y ago
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    - emodendroket 3y ago
      Likening Goatse to child sexual abuse photography seems akin to likening an action movie to ISIS execution videos (except even in that case the mere possession of the material isn't a crime so perhaps it's understating the case).
      - mtrower 3y ago
        That really isn’t the point, I said it was tame for a reason.
    - swozey 3y ago
      What an absolutely stupid comparison. Yeah, goatse was tamer than child porn. Got it, bud. I see where your morals lie. FBI, this guy right here. And who said I saw it one time? I literally said it was full of CP. Good work, man.
      - mtrower 3y ago
        You really think I’m going to link or reference known csam traps here? Or anywhere for that matter? …and because I didn’t do that, you’re calling me a pedophile? Come on man, let’s reign it in a bit here…
mtrower 3y ago
I know a good amount of people in their 30s who were perpetually online, from that time onward, and can can think of maybe two who have been to 4chan. > The last time I went there it was full of CP and I lose all respect for people who use that site no matter how you try to spin it. It sounds like you don't actually use the site --- just like GP was saying.
- swozey 3y ago
  You again. K. No, I don't use the site anymore. I've established that. If you're going to say that I've never used the site, I've also established that I have. More drivel from you. Thanks for replying absolute joke replies to multiple posts of mine. I love that your your username is your name and you post this trash defending CP.
  - mtrower 3y ago
    Yes, me again! > If you're going to say that I've never used the site, I've also established that I have. So… you’ve no respect for your former self? You see how this works? Nowhere did I defend cp. Those are your words about me, not my words about anything. And what about my username? Am I supposed to hide behind a throwaway for any sort of contentious take? Does that make me a man somehow? Good day, sir!
    - swozey 3y ago
      > So… you’ve no respect for your former self? You see how this works? You have the strangest arguments. I quit going to it once I saw CP. I don't even remember why I used to visit it occasionally, probably morbid curiosity, or maybe people on somethingawful linking posts on it. I definitely didn't frequent it and I'm sure I never posted on it. I've seen comments that it's cleaned up a lot and has better moderation. That's good.
  - LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
    > you ... defending CP Yikes. On 4chan you'd have just blindly implied that the poster fathered himself in a freak accident with his mother, who is a bovine. Here, on the nice polite internet, you merely implied that a real person, whose name is attached, is defending ch1ld s3xual abuse. You're so upset about there being a forum you don't like that you've decided to use one of the most powerful accusations you can make about him - one that imho could justifiably get him killed if true - so casually. So much hatred.

by swozey 3y ago

throwaway675309 3y ago

I'm in my 30s and I don't know which boards you frequented to see so much CP because that was not my experience at all. Most of the criticism around the alleged tons of CP seemed to come from people who had an ideological ax to grind against the site in general. Sounds like a "you problem."

swozey 3y ago
Yeah, you're right. We all have an axe to grind against 4chan. We're all making up that we saw CP on it. I'm a former Goon. I've been all over the trashy parts of the internet. It doesn't benefit me whatsoever to lie about seeing CP on 4chan. I even remember exactly what the picture I saw the last time I went to it looked like. It is seared into my memory. That was my last visit to that trash site.
- deleted 3y ago
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- wpietri 3y ago
  My sympathies. I never spent any time on 4chan. But between doing some desktop publishing and helping friends with abuse on the first web-based chat, I saw a bunch of things I could not unsee. It took me maybe 15 years for that stuff to not come back as what they call "involuntary autobiographical memories". It has now faded to the point that I can't bring the full images back at all, just hazy, untraumatizing vague versions. I hope you get there soon!
- mtrower 3y ago
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  - emodendroket 3y ago
    Likening Goatse to child sexual abuse photography seems akin to likening an action movie to ISIS execution videos (except even in that case the mere possession of the material isn't a crime so perhaps it's understating the case).
    - mtrower 3y ago
      That really isn’t the point, I said it was tame for a reason.
  - swozey 3y ago
    What an absolutely stupid comparison. Yeah, goatse was tamer than child porn. Got it, bud. I see where your morals lie. FBI, this guy right here. And who said I saw it one time? I literally said it was full of CP. Good work, man.
    - mtrower 3y ago
      You really think I’m going to link or reference known csam traps here? Or anywhere for that matter? …and because I didn’t do that, you’re calling me a pedophile? Come on man, let’s reign it in a bit here…

mtrower 3y ago

I know a good amount of people in their 30s who were perpetually online, from that time onward, and can can think of maybe two who have been to 4chan. > The last time I went there it was full of CP and I lose all respect for people who use that site no matter how you try to spin it. It sounds like you don't actually use the site --- just like GP was saying.

swozey 3y ago
You again. K. No, I don't use the site anymore. I've established that. If you're going to say that I've never used the site, I've also established that I have. More drivel from you. Thanks for replying absolute joke replies to multiple posts of mine. I love that your your username is your name and you post this trash defending CP.
- mtrower 3y ago
  Yes, me again! > If you're going to say that I've never used the site, I've also established that I have. So… you’ve no respect for your former self? You see how this works? Nowhere did I defend cp. Those are your words about me, not my words about anything. And what about my username? Am I supposed to hide behind a throwaway for any sort of contentious take? Does that make me a man somehow? Good day, sir!
  - swozey 3y ago
    > So… you’ve no respect for your former self? You see how this works? You have the strangest arguments. I quit going to it once I saw CP. I don't even remember why I used to visit it occasionally, probably morbid curiosity, or maybe people on somethingawful linking posts on it. I definitely didn't frequent it and I'm sure I never posted on it. I've seen comments that it's cleaned up a lot and has better moderation. That's good.
- LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
  > you ... defending CP Yikes. On 4chan you'd have just blindly implied that the poster fathered himself in a freak accident with his mother, who is a bovine. Here, on the nice polite internet, you merely implied that a real person, whose name is attached, is defending ch1ld s3xual abuse. You're so upset about there being a forum you don't like that you've decided to use one of the most powerful accusations you can make about him - one that imho could justifiably get him killed if true - so casually. So much hatred.