4chan Seems To Have Been Sold To SomethingAwful Owner Lowtax
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pretty sure the sorry was just for the mario running around on /v/
Isn't SomethingAwful the result of people on Totse who wanted to make a better forum?
I swear I remember something along those lines back when RottenEggs was still at war with them.
apparently the 4chan I'm sorry thing is related to this
[URL="http://fusion.net/story/349359/cops-and-ip-addresses/"]http://fusion.net/story/349359/cops-and-ip-addresses/[/URL]
[QUOTE]On a Friday in February, a visitor to the website 4chan posted child porn photos to the “international” channel. 4chan may be notorious for the offensive images that get posted there, but it turns out there are limits even on that free-wheeling board. According to a police affidavit, 4chan flagged the post, recorded the Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the user who posted it, and reported it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Center passed the tip along to the feds, who forwarded it to the Seattle Police Department, where it landed on the desk of Detective Daljit Gill.
The ultimate fate of that tip, according to a new white paper from the digital civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, reveals in part why IP addresses can be unreliable pieces of evidence that then misused by police and the courts.
An IP address is a unique identifier assigned to a computer or computer network that allows it to connect to the internet. Detective Gill looked up the IP address handed over by 4chan using a publicly available tool from MaxMind, which provides more information, like geographic coordinates where the computer might be located and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) it’s associated with. The ISP in this case was a company called WaveG; Gill sent it a search warrant asking for the name and address associated with the account.
The address pointed at a Seattle couple: David Robinson and Jan Bultmann. So at 6:15 a.m. on a Wednesday morning last March, gun-toting police officers showed up at the door of their condo, flashing a warrant and saying they needed to search the premises. The cops threatened to take all of the computer equipment in the house unless Robinson and Bultmann answered their questions and let them search devices. Robinson got dressed while a police officer watched, according to local alt-weekly The Stranger. Then Robinson and his wife were taken into white police vans and questioned separately for nearly an hour about whether they were child porn connoisseurs.
“They asked terrible questions, really offensive stuff. The interrogator seemed convinced I was trafficking in child pornography,” Robinson told me by phone.
But there was one big problem: they weren’t the ones who had uploaded the child porn. Robinson and Bultmann explained to the officers that they operate a Tor exit relay, a software used by activists, dissidents, privacy enthusiasts, and yes, criminals and child porn aficionados, who want to be able to surf the internet without having their identities exposed. The couple started running the relay as volunteers in 2010, inspired by Wikileaks and whistleblowers who might want to use it for their work.
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[QUOTE=Swiket;51091837][media]https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/779083145861734401[/media]
[media]https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/779105277807177729[/media]
lowtax and this guy are obviously just fucking around[/QUOTE]
A little offtopic, but for anyone who doesn't know, mister metokur is Internet Aristocrat. The guy who broke gamergate. (five guys burgers and fries).
So when will garry sell FP to lowtax
Do I get to pay 50 cents to post anonymously and pay for an actual membership?
[QUOTE=Kylel999;51091686]I hope he deletes it[/QUOTE]
If your neighbor had a swimming pool full of dog shit and you wanted it gone, removing the pool doesn't remove the dog shit. That watery liquid-y mess is just going to seep into your yard and make it smell even worse.
4chan is a necessary evil; keeps all the social degenerates and demented shit lords like ryu g off the good parts of town.
[QUOTE=pentium;51091893]Isn't SomethingAwful the result of people on Totse who wanted to make a better forum?
I swear I remember something along those lines back when RottenEggs was still at war with them.[/QUOTE]
Somethingawful is directly responsible for 4chan's creation I believe.
Also fp is stolen from SA because they banned garry
Trash goes with trash, I suppose.
[QUOTE=EdvardSchnitz;51091795]I really
really
dont want to see another "mass exodus" to 8chan. Its just been a constant stream of /pol/tards and theyve colonized every board..Someone just needs to mercy kill the site at this point...[/QUOTE]
There are some cool boards in 8chan though, I think /hgg/ is ok, but yeah everything is pretty much filled with /pol/ people unfortunately, even /leftypol/
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Svinnik;51091918]apparently the 4chan I'm sorry thing is related to this
[URL="http://fusion.net/story/349359/cops-and-ip-addresses/"]http://fusion.net/story/349359/cops-and-ip-addresses/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Wait, doesn't 4chan disallow you to post from a tor exit node?
[QUOTE=Furnost;51091717]...and why should we delete an entire site thats been around for many years, and caters to tons of interests[/QUOTE]
Because /b/ is a scuuury place >:[
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51091740]/b/, much like /mlp/ and /pol/, are containment boards, if you delete them, the cancer will spread.[/QUOTE]
buddy, /mlp/ is already malignant on the internet and /pol/ is a tumor from the internet of the far-right
[QUOTE=Furnost;51091717]...and why should we delete an entire site thats been around for many years, and caters to tons of interests[/QUOTE]
Because it's shit and 8chan is already better
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
And it's been at least 1-2 years since the exodus
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51092773]Because it's shit and 8chan is already better
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
And it's been at least 1-2 years since the exodus[/QUOTE]
That sounds pretty subjective
More features and less censorhappy janitors?
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
There's not much of a reason to use 4c over 8c besides the fame ratio
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51092782]More features and less censorhappy janitors?
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
There's not much of a reason to use 4c over 8c besides the fame ratio[/QUOTE]
a fairly dead userbase, boards move slow as shit on 8chan
Shame that it's fake considering Hiro is doing fuck all to reform the moderation.
Which if 4ch ever went down it wouldn't still be a factor, the community would just migrate to it or 7ch but I don't think 7ch really brings much to the table
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51092782]More features and less censorhappy janitors?
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
There's not much of a reason to use 4c over 8c besides the fame ratio[/QUOTE]
ive been going to 4chan for like 10 years im not about to switch, and ive never had any problem with any sort of "censorship" either, 8chan has nothing for me
[QUOTE=Kegan;51092786]a fairly dead userbase, boards move slow as shit on 8chan[/QUOTE]
It's true that the number isn't rising much since the big fiasco that caused its initial surge is long gone.
The slower threads doesn't bother me much, makes it easier to keep up, less need for archiving, but that's not a reason I prefer it
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Furnost;51092793]ive been going to 4chan for like 10 years im not about to switch, and ive never had any problem with any sort of "censorship" either, 8chan has nothing for me[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure most of the people there now did the same
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51091740]/b/, much like /mlp/ and /pol/, are containment boards, if you delete them, the cancer will spread.[/QUOTE]
i mean 3 minutes on /co/ and /v/ respectively will prove that containment horseshit wrong but alright
[QUOTE=AaronM202;51091740]/b/, much like /mlp/ and /pol/, are containment boards, if you delete them, the cancer will spread.[/QUOTE]
/b/ and /pol/ don't contain shit.
8chan has been a lost cause since December 2014, why the fuck would anyone want to go there? It's slow, the userbase is terrible (and getting even worse), there's no guarantee that the mods of a particular board won't be crap, and there hasn't been any good content on the handful of boards that actually do get traffic since early 2015.
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51092782]More features and less censorhappy janitors?
[editline]23rd September 2016[/editline]
There's not much of a reason to use 4c over 8c besides the fame ratio[/QUOTE]
you know how it feels when the restaurant says 'we have pepsi'
that's how i feel about 8chan
[QUOTE=Ezhik;51092906]you know how it feels when the restaurant says 'we have pepsi'
that's how i feel about 8chan[/QUOTE]I... I don't understand. I feel like I should understand this but I don't.
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;51092936]I... I don't understand. I feel like I should understand this but I don't.[/QUOTE]
I think he means when you ask for a coke and they say "We have Pepsi."
It's not what you want, basically.
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[QUOTE=Ezhik;51092906]you know how it feels when the restaurant says 'we have pepsi'
that's how i feel about 8chan[/QUOTE]
I feel like them having RC instead would be more accurate
[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;51093036]I think he means when you ask for a coke and they say "We have Pepsi."
It's not what you want, basically.[/QUOTE]Oh, yeah maybe that makes sense.
I was thinking of an actual restaurant where you order wine with a meal.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;51092906]you know how it feels when the restaurant says 'we have pepsi'
that's how i feel about 8chan[/QUOTE]
Exactly, it's superior
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