Saturday, 6 July 2019

Destroyer of worlds

quote [ Kicked off 4chan for doxing, then kicked off 7chan, 4chon, and several other alt-chans, Gamergate needed a home and Brennan saw an opportunity. He dialled into a Gamergate live-stream chat and made his pitch: “I’m not like Chris Poole. I’m happy to have you.” Gleefully, the Gamergaters moved in. Discovering Brennan’s disability, they gave him a new nickname: Hotwheels. ]

Very thoroughly collected info on the whole online harassment thing: it's complicated. Didn't know 8chan was this late to the whole imageboard circle. Surely explains a thing or two.
[SFW] [people] [+6 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:59pmGMT]

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von_sanchez said[2] @ 8:07am GMT on 7th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
I started on a couple of BBSs, then IRC, then discovered SE because of finding SexyLosers and maybe 5 years after that first saw 4chan. I started late but early enough that the far right wasn't yet a thing and the left was the more dominant counterculture online still.

I too watched as Chan culture was completely taken over by the far right. It's not the technology or a handful of admins who are responsible for it - it's a coordinated and well resourced campaign to take over any online community with underresourced or lax moderation.

I dont think it will ever go back to being something you can moderate or control - vulnerable people are going to keep finding these places and as long as their ideology exists, the only things I think seem to work are education and access to rehabilitation for the people that get sucked in.
2345 said @ 11:37am GMT on 7th Jul [Score:-5 Boring]
A fascinating read, well suited to this forum. Thank you for posting it. The takeaway, that we should curtail free speech rights, is appropriately cloaked – but is, nonetheless, the premise of the piece. I guess we can take some comfort in that the author is not yet bold enough to call for this kind of curtailment explicitly. But others are, and their numbers are growing.

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