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The initial leaker is most likely not the same parties as the ones tying email addresses and usernames to people's "real identities", if you look at the thread
by robobro 1y ago
The initial leaker is most likely not the same parties as the ones tying email addresses and usernames to people's "real identities", if you look at the thread where the leak was announced.
Say what you will about 4chan but I am concerned for the team managing it - them and their close ones are certainly going to be exposed to a whole lot of viciousness soon :(
- pjc50 1y ago> them and their close ones are certainly going to be exposed to a whole lot of viciousness soon Isn't viciousness the notorious bread and butter of 4chan?
- morkalork 1y agoLive by the sword, die by the sword I would say. You don't get to enjoy raising leopards and also get to be surprised when you become lunch one day
- brookst 1y agoThey certainly don’t get to claim any kind of moral high ground, but as a bystander I can feel empathy for someone hit by a drunk driver, even if the victim had driven drunk before in the past. Any increase in human suffering is unfortunate, regardless of one’s take on just desserts or karma or whatever.
- soVeryTired 1y agoI’d say it’s more like a high-profile NRA member getting shot. Unfortunate but it’s hard to miss the irony.
- brookst 1y agoThat’s fair, similar point. Reasonable people can both appreciate the irony and feel bad for the victim. Few people IRL have the sociopathic “they had it coming so I just want to watch them bleed out” attitude that we see so much of online.
- robobro 1y agoMost boards on 4chan, like the origami board, food and cooking, pets and animals, retro gaming, toys, etc are relatively harmless and are just a different way to participate in discussions than using discord or reddit. The staff has cut down a lot on organized harassment that 4chan was notorious for in recent years. Those people migrated to private discords, telegrams, and other forums (like kiwi farms, soy party, etc). Ex, #gamergate was mostly an 8chan, Twitter, reddit, and IRC phenomenon - #gg people would get banned if they tried posting about it on 4chan
- a0123 1y agoDamn, the culture they have bred and actively maintained is now going to be turned against them? It might end up making them more sympathetic people on the long term. They might realise the seriousness of what they have done to others.
- wegfawefgawefg 1y agothe serious crime of... deleting egregious posts from a website
- weard_beard 1y agoWhile a precise estimate is difficult to gauge it is supposed by professional analysts that a majority of hacks are state sponsored. If the hacker is a state actor then I don't think anyone has learned anything about Free Speech.
- dialup_sounds 1y ago"The culture" of 4chan varies from board to board and even thread to thread.
- y-curious 1y agoYou don't like to lump people into groups by race/country of origin but find no cognitive dissonance in lumping people together by platform choice.
- theossuary 1y ago"Wow, you'd group people by their actions and beliefs but not by immutable characteristics they were born with?!" /s
- 52-6F-62 1y agoOne of those is something people are born into without choice. The other is chosen because of their tastes.
- DrillShopper 1y agoYes. People can leave the platform. They can't leave their race.