Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by grawprog on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:55PM
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The problem with 8chan is, it's not a cohesive whole. Each board is individually ran and the global moderators won't get involved unless it's content that's blatantly illegal. Not all boards there are the same. Not all the people there are the same. The problem is the hateful supremicists all congregate there. /pol/ is the board where most of them hang out. Other boards have nothing to do with politics and have completely different kinds of people that post there. There's even a /leftypol/ devoted to leftist politics that contains no white supremicists.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by anthonybsd on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:39PM
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>There's even a /leftypol/ devoted to leftist politics that contains no white supremicists.
Leftypol is not devoted to "leftist politics", it's a counterpart to /pol which stands for "politically incorrect". /leftypol by extension is politically incorrect that curved to the left. In reality /leftypol and /pol are not that dissimilar. Both attract off-the-rocker crazy conspiracy-theory types the likes of QAnon. If you looked at /leftypol during say attempted coup in Venezuela the content you would have encountered would have been just as offensive as /pol.
Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by irvwash on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:57PM
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> 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 was seized by the site administration, and they make its rules.