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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by sneak on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:49PM (#20618760)
”8channers” is no more a defining term than “CNN watchers”. A website is not an identity. Many of the people who read HN also read the n-chans.

Be extremely careful about drawing conclusions about people based on the books they read or the websites they visit.

This wasn’t a blow against 8chan or 8channers, this was a blow against everyone who reads things on the internet.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by hestipod on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:22PM (#20619137)
I've heard the same said about r/the_donald etc. That argument falls flat when an overarching theme is a reality. Terrible people always try and lump themselves in with the truly innocent who are oppressed to engender sympathy as victims. There are increasingly common intersections where a duck is a duck.
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