Facebook, reddit, MySpace and Twitter have all been linked to mass shootings and child pornography. None of these sites condone, enable or remotely desire such content.

> None of these sites condone, enable or remotely desire such content.

Yeah, and that's the difference, isn't it? 8kun might not condone any of these things, officially, but it very much enables and desires them.

This kind of discourse is seen as the "price of freedom", its presence a demonstration of absolute tolerance and blind faith in freedom of speech. Facebook, reddit, MySpace and Twitter are more strictly moderated and impose actual terms of service on their users' freedom of expression.

But of course this also means the people most motivated to join networks that offer guarantees of free speech absolutism are those whose discourse is not tolerated by these mainstream alternatives. And their presence will almost guarantee an absence of "normies" who don't run into the limits of their freedom of speech on the moderated networks much and feel uncomfortable around the former group.

Heck, the only reason 8chan ever became large enough to be widely known was because 4chan evicted Gamergate. And 4chan isn't exactly known for its strict moderation and suppression of political views.

Do you know why 4chan evicted Gamergate?

Enlighten us, I'm sure your explanation will reframe 8chan in a way that makes it seem a lot more respectable.

Moot was trying to be friends with the people in that circle. A girl he was trying to date didn't like it. He was taking awkward babysteps towards his lackluster job at Google where he would never be promoted or accomplish anything meaningful again.