{"id":47731,"date":"2019-08-11T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47731"},"modified":"2019-08-11T07:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T12:20:31","slug":"8chan-the-latest-fearporn-driveguardian-in-hysterics-over-threat-of-homeless-anonymous-shitposters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47731","title":{"rendered":"8chan: The Latest Fearporn DriveGuardian in Hysterics Over Threat of Homeless, Anonymous Shitposters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

8chan: The Latest Fearporn DriveGuardian in Hysterics Over Threat of Homeless, Anonymous Shitposters<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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THE PROBLEM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8chan may have been shut down, but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re safe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see, all the people that used 8chan before it was shut down are still out there<\/em>. They might be on Twitter. They might be on Facebook. They might be ordering coffee at a Starbucks. They might be plotting some sort of far-right apocalypse. They might just be talking about movies on reddit. There\u2019s no way of knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should all be terribly worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least, according to The Guardian<\/em>, who headline today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8chan: ex-users of far-right site flock to new homes across internet<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

First off, of course, 8chan was not a \u201cfar-right site\u201d, it was a site with some \u201cfar-right\u201d people on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are hundreds of boards on 8chan, with thousands upon thousands of different posters. Boards could be created by anyone to discuss anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority were dedicated to perfectly ordinary topics. Video games, fashion, cars, movies. There were many much more specific, fetishy, niche and weird\u2026but not \u201cfar-right\u201d. The site didn\u2019t have an ideology except \u201cfree speech\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The general shifting of \u201cfree speech\u201d from something we all take for granted to being described as a \u201cfar-right agenda\u201d is one of the most worrying trends in modern politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article is actually funny, not least for the total lack of web literacy on display:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former members of 8chan have scattered across the internet after the far-right site was shut down over the weekend<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is simply ridiculous to anyone who knows anything about the nature of 8chan et al. There are no \u201cmembers\u201d. That, indeed, is the whole entire point of the place. It is anonymous and temporary. No usernames, no registration, no \u201cmembership\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8chan: The Latest Fearporn DriveGuardian in Hysterics Over Threat of Homeless, Anonymous Shitposters THE PROBLEM 8chan may have been shut down, but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re safe.  You see, all the people that used 8chan before it was shut down are still out there. They might be on Twitter. They might be on Facebook. They might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20643,120,1339,23436,23435],"class_list":["post-47731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-8chan","tag-censorship","tag-internet","tag-kit-knightly","tag-off-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47732,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731\/revisions\/47732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}