irvwash

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by irvwash 6y ago
> a quick search for "The only good Republican is a dead Republican" returns a lot of hits for the "[...] dead Democrat" quote and almost none for the search phrase This is muddled by one particular incident with a vi
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by irvwash 6y ago
I don't know how common it was, but I found this in the first comment section I looked: > Could it be the Chosenbergs? Although a small group, they seem to control the majority of US record labels, as well as the news outlets, the p
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by irvwash 7y ago
Like I said before, I'm critical of censorship. I used to be a free speech absolutist. I think I'm not quite an absolutist any more (using 8chan for years disillusioned me a little), but I still think censorship is rarely justifie
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by irvwash 7y ago
Radicalization happens through words. You can ban radicalization by banning words. That won't completely get rid of it, but it can make it a lot less accessible, which reduces the amount of radicalization that occurs. I don't thin
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by irvwash 7y ago
Deciding to commit mass murder rarely happens in a vacuum. It typically happens when you surround yourself all day by people who tell you that mass murder is a good idea. Radicalization is a social phenomenon. I'm critical of censorshi
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by irvwash 7y ago
8chan's /pol/ is much larger than /leftypol/. I believe it's about tied with /v/, and those two are the largest boards. There are many basically innocent parts of 8chan, but /pol/ makes up a
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by irvwash 7y ago
> Each board is individually ran and the global moderators won't get involved unless it's content that's blatantly illegal. That's true for almost every other board, but /pol/ isn't individually run. It
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by irvwash 7y ago
It's still more work, because some people will get upset that they're not allowed to promote genocide. It still has edge cases (I've seen some hairy examples from Facebook moderation guidelines). It's also still more of
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by irvwash 7y ago
> They will allow Racism, but actively moderate out Spam. Reddit used to be like that as far as I know, and though there's plenty to criticize I don't think Reddit was intentionally set up to become a breeding ground for violen
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by irvwash 7y ago
/pol/ is not an organization. It's a loose community of people, almost none of whom have done anything worse than expressing terrible opinions. Shootings are incentivized by /pol/ and frequently announced there, bu
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by irvwash 7y ago
Jim Watkins owns a lot of things, including 2channel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel ), a pig farm, and a VPS/VPN/webhosting provider. It's unlikely that those audiobooks are the biggest source of
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by irvwash 7y ago
> I'm guessing/assuming that 8chan is an anything goes censorship free community (like 4chan was/is?). And maybe it's not explicitly in support of racist ideals but instead refuses to condemn any ideologies or discuss
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by irvwash 7y ago
That's fair. They're not treated the same, though. Using /pol/ is considered acceptable, but posting as if you're on /pol/ often isn't. Using /leftypol/ at all isn't considered acceptab
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by irvwash 7y ago
I didn't put it clearly, and not entirely correctly either. Sorry about that. To the extent the site has an overarching culture, it's right-wing. There are boards outside the overarching culture (I said there were only "few&q
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by irvwash 7y ago
/leftypol/ is insulated. Mentions of it on other boards are usually hostile. Its existence tells you a lot about the consistency of the free speech policy, but it tells you little about the political leanings of other boards, part
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by irvwash 7y ago
/pol/ is around five times as active as /leftypol/. 8chan's overarching culture is right-wing. Some boards aren't part of the overarching culture, but /pol/ is, and people are talking about /pol&
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by irvwash 7y ago
The "ip" field used to hold the plain IP address, so it's still called that, even though it now holds a hash. The post() function fills it in like so: $query->bindValue(':ip', isset($post['ip']) ? $
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by irvwash 7y ago
Tor posters are assigned an ID of "000000". I only see two posts with that ID in the screenshots in the document.
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by irvwash 7y ago
The fork lives at https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB . IPs are hashed at https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB/blob/master/inc/functions.p... . Hashing them was part of the point of the