Or rather, the speech wasn’t “free” enough.

> 8chan’s founder, Fredrick Brennan, created the site in response to what he sees as the ongoing and vast loss of free speech on the Internet. On 8chan, “anyone can say what they want and mean,” Brennan told the Daily Dot.

> Brennan now calls 8chan a “free-speech-friendly 4chan alternative.”

> He called 4chan “authoritarian” and accused it of turning into a soulless for-profit venture.

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-...

For every attempt at censorship there will be those that bristle at authoritarianism and react. Then there will be those that devolve into accusing free speech supporters as supporters of specific disagreeable speech.

Yep, 8chan users wanted to be shittier than even 4chan would let them be.

This keeps getting repeated but it's not exactly true, 8chan was started because Fredrick Brennan had a shroom trip where he saw an Ouroboros and came up with the idea to make a 4chan where you could make your own board. People then ended up migrating over during GamerGate because Moot was shutting down discussion of it.

8chan's /gg/ board was really strict on that sort of stuff so I doubt it was just 'sexual violence' that was being censored.

To people dowvoting parent: please google

gamergate Charlottenville

Not only is there no connection between pro-gamergate and threats, it's literally the other way round. And Charlottesville has absolutely nothing to do with this whatsoever

Literally the first item on a DGG search:

"How Charlottesville and Gamergate are Completely Related"

Second item:

"Matthew Robert Warner: From GamerGate to Identity Evropa"

The first item is an opinion piece from the very credible Xennial-in-Chief writing for brokeassstuart.com with no relevant facts.

The second is about one person who is literally the only connection IdentifyEvropa found between the two groups. And what was that connection? He tweeted a few tweets about it.

https://identifyevropa.org/tag/gamergate/

The lack of substantial links only provides evidence that there is no real connection.

By this logic Zoe Quinn is the reason for the rise of 21st century nazism.

No, but GamerGate is in the west.

Never hung around /v/ during those years, but my guess is it there was no censorship, it was just paranoia as usual. If they really cared so much about it, they could post on /b/.

I was there and not only did the censorship was unexpected and uncalled for, it happened on /r/games at the same time also, which was very uncanny.

Not only that, the catalyst was the most innocuous GamerGate take of the entire fiasco, which was TotalBiscuit's twitlonger about it, where he categorically condemned harassment, and rather used all the hubbub to talk about actual issues in gaming journalism. Nuking that entire thread might've been one of the biggest blunder in reddit history, alongside the Boston bomber fiasco.

If you don't know, why are you posting a guess?

Because moot wasn't a censoring type, went against his nature and 4chan in general.