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hecter wrote:Child porn.

Falkomagno wrote:I'm incorruptible, but, what is the buzz about it..I mean..child porn is a crime and has to be released to underground places, but 4chan, it's almost main stream. I'm confused why

Falkomagno wrote:I'm incorruptible, but, what is the buzz about it..I mean..child porn is a crime and has to be released to underground places, but 4chan, it's almost main stream. I'm confused why

Snowgun wrote:

Falkomagno wrote:I'm incorruptible, but, what is the buzz about it..I mean..child porn is a crime and has to be released to underground places, but 4chan, it's almost main stream. I'm confused why

The buzz is that there are so many impressionable scriptkiddies (/b/tards) sprinkled with some seriously sketchy dudes there. Add this to the fact that they are completely anonymous, and you have this organic, viral mob that can crash almost any site or server if they collectively turn their mind to it.

In fact, this amalgamation of people is called "anonymous", like some sort of hive mind. Usually they are fractionated and bicker amongst themselves, but every once in a while they can severely effect the "real world".

SultanOfSurreal wrote:

Snowgun wrote:

Falkomagno wrote:I'm incorruptible, but, what is the buzz about it..I mean..child porn is a crime and has to be released to underground places, but 4chan, it's almost main stream. I'm confused why

The buzz is that there are so many impressionable scriptkiddies (/b/tards) sprinkled with some seriously sketchy dudes there. Add this to the fact that they are completely anonymous, and you have this organic, viral mob that can crash almost any site or server if they collectively turn their mind to it.

In fact, this amalgamation of people is called "anonymous", like some sort of hive mind. Usually they are fractionated and bicker amongst themselves, but every once in a while they can severely effect the "real world".

when have 4chan users ever affected anything but shitty furry websites? ps prank calling people does not count as affecting anything

Through its association with Anonymous, 4chan has become associated with Project Chanology, a worldwide protest against the Church of Scientology held by members of Anonymous. On January 15, 2008, a 4chan user posted to /b/, suggesting participants "do something big" against the Church of Scientology's website. This message resulted in the Church receiving, by its own reports, more than 6,000 threatening phone calls. It quickly grew into a large real-world protest

Internet attacks
See also: Anonymous (group)#KTTV Fox 11 news report and Sarah Palin email hack

Users of 4chan and other websites "raided" Hal Turner by launching DDoS attacks and prank calling his phone-in radio show during December 2006 and January 2007. The attacks caused Turner's website to go offline. This cost thousands of dollars of bandwidth bills according to Turner. In response, Turner sued 4chan, 7chan, and other websites; however, he lost his plea for an injunction and failed to receive letters from the court.[42]

KTTV Fox 11 aired a report on Anonymous, calling them a group of "hackers on steroids", "domestic terrorists", and collectively an "Internet hate machine" on July 26, 2007.[43] Slashdot founder Rob Malda posted a comment made by another Slashdot user, Miang, stating that the story focused mainly on users of "4chan, 7chan and 420chan". Miang claimed that the report "seems to confuse /b/ raids and motivational poster templates with a genuine threat to the American public", arguing that the "unrelated" footage of a van exploding shown in the report was to "equate anonymous posting with domestic terror".[44]

On July 10, 2008, the swastika symbol (卐) appeared at the top of Google's Hot Trends list—a tally of the most popular search terms in the United States—for several hours. It was later reported that the HTML numeric character reference for the symbol had been posted on /b/, with a request to perform a Google search for the string. A multitude of /b/ visitors followed the order and pushed the symbol to the top of the chart, though Google later removed the result.[12]

Later that year, the private Yahoo! Mail account of Sarah Palin, Republican vice presidential candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election, was hacked by a 4chan user. This followed criticism of Palin and other politicians supposedly using private email accounts for governmental work.[45] The hacker posted the account's password on /b/, and screenshots from within the account to Wikileaks.[46] A /b/ user then logged in and changed the password, posting a screenshot of his sending an email to a friend of Palin's informing her of the new password on the /b/ thread. However, he forgot to blank out the password in the screenshot.[47] A multitude of /b/ users attempted to log in with the new password, and the account was automatically locked out by Yahoo!. The incident was criticized by some /b/ users, one of whom complained that "seriously, /b/. We could have changed history and failed, epically."[48] The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident shortly after its occurrence. On September 20 it was revealed they were questioning David Kernell, the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell.[49]

The stock price of Apple Inc. fell significantly in October 2008 after a hoax story was submitted to CNN's user-generated news site iReport.com claiming that company CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack. The source of the story was traced back to 4chan.[50][51]

In May 2009, members of the site attacked YouTube, posting pornographic videos on the site.[52] 4chan claimed responsibility for the attack, one member told the BBC that the attack was in response to YouTube "deleting music".[53]

SultanOfSurreal wrote:

Snowgun wrote:

Falkomagno wrote:I'm incorruptible, but, what is the buzz about it..I mean..child porn is a crime and has to be released to underground places, but 4chan, it's almost main stream. I'm confused why

The buzz is that there are so many impressionable scriptkiddies (/b/tards) sprinkled with some seriously sketchy dudes there. Add this to the fact that they are completely anonymous, and you have this organic, viral mob that can crash almost any site or server if they collectively turn their mind to it.

In fact, this amalgamation of people is called "anonymous", like some sort of hive mind. Usually they are fractionated and bicker amongst themselves, but every once in a while they can severely effect the "real world".

when have 4chan users ever affected anything but shitty furry websites? ps prank calling people does not count as affecting anything

Snowgun wrote:Through its association with Anonymous, 4chan has become associated with Project Chanology, a worldwide protest against the Church of Scientology held by members of Anonymous. On January 15, 2008, a 4chan user posted to /b/, suggesting participants "do something big" against the Church of Scientology's website. This message resulted in the Church receiving, by its own reports, more than 6,000 threatening phone calls. It quickly grew into a large real-world protest

Internet attacks
See also: Anonymous (group)#KTTV Fox 11 news report and Sarah Palin email hack

Users of 4chan and other websites "raided" Hal Turner by launching DDoS attacks and prank calling his phone-in radio show during December 2006 and January 2007. The attacks caused Turner's website to go offline. This cost thousands of dollars of bandwidth bills according to Turner. In response, Turner sued 4chan, 7chan, and other websites; however, he lost his plea for an injunction and failed to receive letters from the court.[42]

KTTV Fox 11 aired a report on Anonymous, calling them a group of "hackers on steroids", "domestic terrorists", and collectively an "Internet hate machine" on July 26, 2007.[43] Slashdot founder Rob Malda posted a comment made by another Slashdot user, Miang, stating that the story focused mainly on users of "4chan, 7chan and 420chan". Miang claimed that the report "seems to confuse /b/ raids and motivational poster templates with a genuine threat to the American public", arguing that the "unrelated" footage of a van exploding shown in the report was to "equate anonymous posting with domestic terror".[44]

On July 10, 2008, the swastika symbol (卐) appeared at the top of Google's Hot Trends list—a tally of the most popular search terms in the United States—for several hours. It was later reported that the HTML numeric character reference for the symbol had been posted on /b/, with a request to perform a Google search for the string. A multitude of /b/ visitors followed the order and pushed the symbol to the top of the chart, though Google later removed the result.[12]

Later that year, the private Yahoo! Mail account of Sarah Palin, Republican vice presidential candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election, was hacked by a 4chan user. This followed criticism of Palin and other politicians supposedly using private email accounts for governmental work.[45] The hacker posted the account's password on /b/, and screenshots from within the account to Wikileaks.[46] A /b/ user then logged in and changed the password, posting a screenshot of his sending an email to a friend of Palin's informing her of the new password on the /b/ thread. However, he forgot to blank out the password in the screenshot.[47] A multitude of /b/ users attempted to log in with the new password, and the account was automatically locked out by Yahoo!. The incident was criticized by some /b/ users, one of whom complained that "seriously, /b/. We could have changed history and failed, epically."[48] The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident shortly after its occurrence. On September 20 it was revealed they were questioning David Kernell, the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell.[49]

The stock price of Apple Inc. fell significantly in October 2008 after a hoax story was submitted to CNN's user-generated news site iReport.com claiming that company CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack. The source of the story was traced back to 4chan.[50][51]

In May 2009, members of the site attacked YouTube, posting pornographic videos on the site.[52] 4chan claimed responsibility for the attack, one member told the BBC that the attack was in response to YouTube "deleting music".[53]

Falkomagno wrote:and what "/b/" stands for??

Falkomagno wrote:and what "/b/" stands for??

SultanOfSurreal wrote:

Snowgun wrote:

Falkomagno wrote:I'm incorruptible, but, what is the buzz about it..I mean..child porn is a crime and has to be released to underground places, but 4chan, it's almost main stream. I'm confused why

The buzz is that there are so many impressionable scriptkiddies (/b/tards) sprinkled with some seriously sketchy dudes there. Add this to the fact that they are completely anonymous, and you have this organic, viral mob that can crash almost any site or server if they collectively turn their mind to it.

In fact, this amalgamation of people is called "anonymous", like some sort of hive mind. Usually they are fractionated and bicker amongst themselves, but every once in a while they can severely effect the "real world".

when have 4chan users ever affected anything but shitty furry websites? ps prank calling people does not count as affecting anything

Woodruff wrote:

SultanOfSurreal wrote:

Snowgun wrote:

Falkomagno wrote:I'm incorruptible, but, what is the buzz about it..I mean..child porn is a crime and has to be released to underground places, but 4chan, it's almost main stream. I'm confused why

The buzz is that there are so many impressionable scriptkiddies (/b/tards) sprinkled with some seriously sketchy dudes there. Add this to the fact that they are completely anonymous, and you have this organic, viral mob that can crash almost any site or server if they collectively turn their mind to it.

In fact, this amalgamation of people is called "anonymous", like some sort of hive mind. Usually they are fractionated and bicker amongst themselves, but every once in a while they can severely effect the "real world".

when have 4chan users ever affected anything but shitty furry websites? ps prank calling people does not count as affecting anything

You mean seriously endangering lives doesn't count as affecting anything in your world? Because 4chan has done so with their prank calling many times.