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4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 96 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

I absolutely don't care what happens to 4chan, but UK starting to fine the internet for being available there and not complying with their bullshit is worrying.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don't want the 4chan users to flock someplace else.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Believe me, they've already been everywhere you've been. It's not like once you post on 4chan you're forbidden from making accounts on every other website.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's like league of Legends. Sure, they play other games. But it keeps a lot of their time busy elsewhere.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A game would keep people entertained or engaged in some way, some kind of focused shared activity. But to 4chan, coordinating with other anons about what YouTube comments to spam, what subreddit to brigade, that was the game. Organizing a personal army of trolls (yes that personal army) was the whole point of being there.

    In your analogy, a game of LoL takes place where all 10 players don't play the game, they use global chat to decide on raiding Battlefield, DotA, or Overwatch. They then make a bunch of accounts, join some games, and rile people up with hate speech. Then they go back to LoL to share how angry they made other people.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They've already "flocked". The site and userbase is a shell of its former self and it's hey day is long passed. The users aged out or just went to places like kiwi farms, random discord channels, etc.

    I mean you're on Lemmy, a good chunk of old 4chan users are here, so you're amongst them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I don't really understand where the very specific idea of kiwi farming comes from, but I can confirm old 4chan users are here. I'm one of them. I've never been misogynistic or racist however. I was more into the freedom, randomness, otaku culture and activism for civic liberties. There's a preconceived notion of what a 4chan user is, and I understand where it comes from.

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