Rothschild emails and PW leak on 4chan, pol bans all threads and users - https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/255827057/

[SmogDC5]

I'm surprised this isn't in Articles&Autism

I'd politely ask the mods to move this thread to a more relevant board if this isn't a good fit.

 

[Chad Nasty]

4chin has been pozzed since 2007

 

[Burd Turglar]

4chan is basically normies and shit head suburban white kids at this point. FFS I hear that shit referenced in shitty podcasts on the reg.

 

[CDWLTY]

I'm sure 4chan has long ago been compromised. It's too tasty of a honeypot to ignore. I still like having it around, like we saw in the early Wuhan happenings. It's kinda the name brand in anonymous posting, so lots of people out there who have something alarming to tell the world (like the chinese dragging people out of their homes to 'heal' them) they have some place in mind to say it. Dropping it somewhere less visible or any mainstream point means it disappears.

So for most uses it's probably a bunch of feds from differing agencies trying to sweet talk each other, with a stray chinaman here or there trying to leak the newest CCCP atrocity.

 

[Green Man]

There was a rather subtle shift in 2011 or so from what I saw, although admittedly after 2011 I mostly quit paying any attention to 4chan. When I started checking it out again in 2015 or so, it seemed like everything had changed. At this point, aside from the hobbyist/media centered boards, it's pretty much just Reddit but filled mostly with people on the opposite end of the political spectrum. I have no doubt that most of the tankie/tranny/u mad whyte boi shit is just shills or slideposters, it isn't really indicative of the user-base other than how much they sperg about it, most of them knowing full-well that it's just shilling.

I maintain that smartphones were kind of a mistake. They are fantastic for accessing information, but as a result of all of the newcomers, the Internet rapidly became a washed out corporate dystopia. Still a few gems to be had, of course, but they are getting harder and harder to find. The Internet itself used to be a niche, then within that niche you had various microcosms which were niches all on their own. Now that every smooth brain has access to pretty much everything, those communities have gotten smaller and smaller and have been pushed to the periphery. Basically there are really only a few sites and communities worth visiting anymore as a result of this shit.

 

[Leaf-eon]

There was a rather subtle shift in 2011 or so from what I saw, although admittedly after 2011 I mostly quit paying any attention to 4chan. When I started checking it out again in 2015 or so, it seemed like everything had changed. At this point, aside from the hobbyist/media centered boards, it's pretty much just Reddit but filled mostly with people on the opposite end of the political spectrum. I have no doubt that most of the tankie/tranny/u mad whyte boi shit is just shills or slideposters, it isn't really indicative of the user-base other than how much they sperg about it, most of them knowing full-well that it's just shilling.

I maintain that smartphones were kind of a mistake. They are fantastic for accessing information, but as a result of all of the newcomers, the Internet rapidly became a washed out corporate dystopia. Still a few gems to be had, of course, but they are getting harder and harder to find. The Internet itself used to be a niche, then within that niche you had various microcosms which were niches all on their own. Now that every smooth brain has access to pretty much everything, those communities have gotten smaller and smaller and have been pushed to the periphery. Basically there are really only a few sites and communities worth visiting anymore as a result of this shit.

Normies ruin everything.

 

[Xarpho]

I'm sure 4chan has long ago been compromised. It's too tasty of a honeypot to ignore. I still like having it around, like we saw in the early Wuhan happenings. It's kinda the name brand in anonymous posting, so lots of people out there who have something alarming to tell the world (like the chinese dragging people out of their homes to 'heal' them) they have some place in mind to say it. Dropping it somewhere less visible or any mainstream point means it disappears.

So for most uses it's probably a bunch of feds from differing agencies trying to sweet talk each other, with a stray chinaman here or there trying to leak the newest CCCP atrocity.

There was a particularly interesting bit of copypasta on 4chan that claimed /b/ had feds get special tools to catch cp (that or get 4chan taken offline) and over time, they pushed the mod team out, and the board without a mod team to have "board culture" became a a wasteland.

 

[Nekoi.Inukuma.00]

There was a rather subtle shift in 2011 or so from what I saw, although admittedly after 2011 I mostly quit paying any attention to 4chan. When I started checking it out again in 2015 or so, it seemed like everything had changed. At this point, aside from the hobbyist/media centered boards, it's pretty much just Reddit but filled mostly with people on the opposite end of the political spectrum. I have no doubt that most of the tankie/tranny/u mad whyte boi shit is just shills or slideposters, it isn't really indicative of the user-base other than how much they sperg about it, most of them knowing full-well that it's just shilling.

Going to go off on a tangent here: The Obama admin was cheering on how the Arab Spring took off on social media, but got really concerned when the idea came stateside in the form of OWS. In spite of his early career and time in college, the Obama admin put a lot of faith and support into the surveillance state. It absolutely would not surprise me in the slightest if the CIA/FBI had started COINTEL 2.0, internet edition after 2009. Considering how 4chan was able to organize grassroots protests for really dumb things in the past (Project Chanology/Church of Scientology comes to mind), I could see them 100% try and infiltrate and subvert *chan culture in an attempt "to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them..." especially with all the CP and website/server hacks going on during those days.

tl;dr - by 2011 with loosened restrictions on the FBI/NSA/CIA, they were almost certainly grooming confidential informants in every culturally important internet space.

Also, by 2015, I'm pretty sure m00t was checking the fuck out, because his little baby was becoming more trouble than it's worth and he had Silicon Valley VC money, and an opportunistic SJW girlfriend whispering in his ear.

I maintain that smartphones were kind of a mistake. They are fantastic for accessing information, but as a result of all of the newcomers, the Internet rapidly became a washed out corporate dystopia. Still a few gems to be had, of course, but they are getting harder and harder to find. The Internet itself used to be a niche, then within that niche you had various microcosms which were niches all on their own. Now that every smooth brain has access to pretty much everything, those communities have gotten smaller and smaller and have been pushed to the periphery. Basically there are really only a few sites and communities worth visiting anymore as a result of this shit.

It's like "Eternal September" on steroids + "dot com boom" all over again.

 

[HumanHive]

For those wondering why this was wiped from 4chan, it was because of the no raids/dox/personal information policy and no other reason.

I know that sounds weird to Kiwis, but it's right there in the site's rules.

 

[Section230]

For those wondering why this was wiped from 4chan, it was because of the no raids/dox/personal information policy and no other reason.

I know that sounds weird to Kiwis, but it's right there in the site's rules.

Rules, ancient conspiracies, what's the difference? It's all the MAN harshing my buzz.

 

[HumanHive]

Rules, ancient conspiracies, what's the difference? It's all the MAN harshing my buzz.

Well in this case it's THE MAN that's been around since invasion threads were permanently outlawed back in the 00's.

 

[murgatroid]

Didn't Moot sell 4chan to a jap who was known for secretly selling user data on the imageboard of his own?

 

[MelloYello]

Just rename it to 4Chaim already.

 

[Leaf-eon]

Fangsofjeff posted some old janitorial logs in the 4chan thread that where before moot sold 4chan to hiroshimoot. And i feel like it belong here too.

 

[kcbbq]

4chan has been shit since moot switched away from the 2ch software clone, and maybe since he got his pedoban from SA tbh.

 

[אΩ+1]

The Feds have been on 4chan ever since Hal Turner (paid FBI informat) got raided by 4chan in December of 2006.

 

[#zzz]

Honestly, they've been compromised since at least the Project Chanology bullshit back in the late 2000's, and probably even before that.

Tellingly, the only other board that doesn't accept janitor applications aside from /pol/ is /b/

4chan has had a compromised mod team for ages, at least on /pol/ and /b/, the two most infamous boards.

Really, 4chan has been a borderline normie-tier site for years now. It's just a slightly edgier version of Reddit at this point, and /pol/ is only kept around as a containment board.

Yes, its far better to have a controlled space that people think is anonymous to upload their murder spree/rape and have it on hand as evidence, than having people planning things in places you don't know about or can't access.

The stupid thing is, the FBI and CIA already know all the big players, they probably have a hand in various mafias, cartels, and human trafficking rings, they probably even know the higher up celebrities and CEOs and politicans involved.

And yet they probably have a department devoted to catching edgy mentally ill people on an imageboard.

It's just so bizarre how things in the world work.

 

[Dang Dirty Troons]

Truth is, 4Cent was controlled opposition from the start.

 

[Male Idiot]

But what was in the emails?

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

I've always assumed that Something Awful was the original test-bed for this kind of stuff. If you look at how it all played out there it was very similar just on a smaller scale. You notice a few posters who try to steer things a certain way at first, then they start getting their way a bit more often than not, then the mods stop tolerating dissent. Eventually the whole thing devolves into in-fighting and chaos that is a easy to rein in and control if you're the one pulling all the strings up top.

NeoGaf was probably another now that I think about it a bit as well.