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A comment on A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Ef... by wand3r on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:14AM (#14630069)
> x.com used to be better

It did. Elon Musk owned it pre merger with confinity. X.com used to redirect to PayPal; still prob does. So x.com certainly used to be better...

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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Ef... by patrickg_zill on Sunday June 25, 2017 @04:54PM (#14632126)
Somewhere I still have an X.com plastic credit card.
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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Ef... by vertex-four on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:21AM (#14630104)
Doesn't currently do anything.
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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Ef... by devmunchies on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:32AM (#14630153)
Are they being literal about "x.com"? I thought they were just just saying <insert whatever old site you used to use a decade ago>.com
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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Ef... by vertex-four on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:15AM (#14630359)
wand3r is, as a joke. sotojuan isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
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