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I guess these school boards never knew how dangerous the Internet really was.

Live in fear children. LIVE IN FEAR!

Oh you mean like a tamer user submitted version of http://www.stileproject.com/? (WARNING: really sick shit!) I see now. Well, why didn't the summary just say so? I've been to the bottom of the internet, I just came up from it long before this http://www.4chan.org/ came along.

simply go to http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html

Visit this.

The UK filter is interesting, because everybody involved is so secretive. For example, it appears that 4chan's /b/ board was blocked by it for a while. Unfortunately, since the only messages the people who couldn't access it got back were generic 404s or redirects to the site's "banned" page, and since everyone involved denied it, it's hard to be sure. However, from the ISPs that blocked it and the fact that Google, when requesting information on http://img.4chan.org/b/, gave back no results and a message that 1 result had been removed due to a report by the IWF, who maintain the list of blocked sites used by British ISPs, it seems fairly certain that it was in fact on the blacklist. (The Google results have since changed - take a look, it's interesting.)

Anyway, my main point is this: when your internet connection is being filtered, and you have no way to know if a site is down or if your ISP is actively blocking you from visiting it, it's worrying.

You're obviously not familiar with 4chan.

Rob

Nicely put.
I'd just like to add some visual aid: Behold the internet.

Neither do I, I plagarised it from someone else!

memes from http://dis.4chan.org/prog/
yeah, it's full of shit.

amusing programming forum

The problem with viewing child porn online isn't so much with the viewer as it is with the producer. To produce real child porn you need real children, and that's exploitation pure and simple. If you pay for it, you're paying people to exploit children.

This distinction gets a lot blurrier with CG and drawn porn, but from what I understand the cops tend to focus on real porn instead of the fake stuff. Otherwise you'd have to imagine a gigantic crackdown on things like the Tokyo Doujinshi shows and whatnot. 4chan wouldn't still be around (although there are plenty of other reasons it shouldn't still be around). It's the stuff where real children are exploited that the cops rightfully focus on.

Indeed.

It could always be worse...

For starters http://www.4chan.org/ has some amusing civility issues on its boards.

Let it be known, after /b/ on 4chan, the first statement still stands.

No no no, you have it all wrong. If you REALLY want to cause them grief, don't post the pic on any of those places until you've spammed it to /b/ a few times!* =)

*Warning: Above link is VERY NSFW most times

Hay! News board with pics an shit : http://orz.4chan.org/n/imgboard.html

Go to /b/ and call Rule 34 on it. It shall appear for you soon.

Exactly. For example the 4chan /a/ image board is officially "safe for work", but that is interpreted as "no nipples or genitals". In a strict workplace you could easily get fired for content considered acceptable there.

I slept through this, so I don't know: Did they post amusing music to celebrate their downtime?

Yeah, and they mostly reside over there, at that (warning; NSFW or your sanity) discussion board thing.

The reason theres so much content on Youtube from Japan specifically is because even posting a picture of a celebrity with-out thier permission (that YOU took with your own camera!) on the net is a copyright infringement. Youtube has nothing to do with Japan really so they are free & clear of Japanese law for the most part. They do however take down "some" stuff often times when it's requested, but usualy is requested by a US branch of a Japanese corporation, but even then it's still iffy.

2ch.net (aka 2 Channel) is "the" major web-board for Japan, but kind like a massive collection of interlinked different Japanese boards for posting of pictures, flash files, and just in general bantering back & forth with Otaku. The closest English example is http://www.4chan.org/ (enter at your own peril). The Japanese for the most part love it. They upload the images on Flikr or videos on Youtube, and embed them on thier own pages. For the most part it works extremely well. From there it just spreads to the rest of Asia like wildfire and no I am not one of those Japan is, "teh superior" freaks (though I am very intrested in the culture). The ammount of racism/ignorance between Korea, China, and Japan is staggering at times on these sites.

disclaimer: not my picture - found it on 4chan /G (probably nsfw) a while ago and saved it because it was so damn funny. Anyway here it is - an SD card and it's packaging (from newegg if I remember correctly).

This is because the magnitude of longcat's length knows no limits.

PROOF!!

Who needs posters? In memoriam James Doohan. The longest surviving "Red Shirt" on the USS Enterprise, his "Scotty" set the standard for generations of geeks and engineers. Working with the latest future technologies, often experimental, under a demanding boss for whom FTL travel, teleporters, galactic communications and more firepower than all of 20th Century Earth combined weren't enough to cakewalk through missions on any given week, Scotty's role model has influenced millions of 20th Century predecessors. His ingenuity, fortitude, and sense of humor while telling the boss that his demands are insane, but doable, even under excruciating time pressure floating around a newly discovered dimension, are an inspiration to us all. Mr. Doohan, in your new journey, go as boldly as you led us in all your merely astral journeys on our televisions, and in our imaginations.

Anyway, isn't this a 4chan fad? What's next, posting YTMND sites on Slashdot's front page?

Proxies have been forever, and have been the problem forever. But mass access to the Internet and real problems resulting from it happen now. Proxies and blocking access are just a small countermeasure...

A story of yesterday night:
- anonymous at /b/[NSFW] finds a way to find separate private user profiles on Photobucket in the recent[possible NSFW] directory.
- more /b/tards embark on a quest for more amateur porn by watching this page.
- they find about 80 pics of a girl naked, masturbating.
- they find out more about that girl, including her myspace and Xanga profiles.
- They find out she's 15. Making essentially the pics of her very illegal.
- They post the pics wherever they can, her school, her friends.
- She deletes the pics and the profiles, but the profiles are in caches, the pics already packed on Rapidshare[NSFW, NSFH, and highly illegal!]
- They contact her, fill her up on the story with lots of lies including that her boyfriend was the one who published the pics.
- Her profile on myspace gets ".-*forever loved*-." header. Rumors of her suicide start popping up. Quite likely she's dead by now.

Now of course a proxy-blocking firewall wouldn't help here.
But let's see: web 2.0 sites made this possible - forum, photo sharing, file sharing, profile site.
Unlimited access to the net for the kid and for reckles teens from /b/. Wouldn't happen if not that.
Think of your own reflections. It's not about proxies. It's about kids with access to what they shouldn't be able to access.

Internet porn subscriptions run the same wherever you are too

/b/ needs your help in the ongoing hyteclan raid!

Welcome to /b/.

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday.

Funnily enough, I found that the Anonymous Bastards (TM) posting at 4chan (where anonymity is encouraged or, on one board, enforced) give the impression, on average, of being more literate than most of what I commonly see in "normal" message boards and online forums. Why this would be the case, I do not know.

That would explain why I can't get through to the first page of /b/. Apparently only the first page is obscene because I can see http://img.4chan.org/b/1.html

This can be problematic and annoying for users when the databases aren't correctly updated. A case in point: the Internet Watch Foundation maintains a database of child porn / other obscene URLs so that ISPs can take that list (hashed, so the URLs are not revealed) and block them.

Recently, a popular imageboard at http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html has been added to that list for reasons unknown. Several UK ISPs, including BT Internet and NTL, have blocked that URL. Complaints to either the ISPs or the IWF from both the users and the site admin have gone unanswered. I am personally quite annoyed by this as I'm a regular user of that board.

It's this sort of unaccountable censorship of the Internet that makes me suspicious of such 'helpful' databases.

He's also famous on 4chan and, presumably, on a site related to 4chan, Something Awful. 4chan is full of geeks who are into tech on the web. There is a dark underbelly of the internet that is YTMND, Something Awful, and 4chan (and its many spinoffs).

Everyone has to have seen the owl with "O rly?" written below him! That originated on one of these sites. These three sites are to memes as Paris is to fashion.

It's caturday!

Thanks Cmdr Taco!

We merely lived on farms and saw horses, steer/cows, rams/sheep, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats doing it all the time.

Same thing, only not human.

Just to make your post more colorful check: this
It goes:

We are /b/. We are unity, We are one.
Here, all are the same, are anonymous.
When you come here, if you are black,
you are now white, if you are a girl,
you are now a man, if you have had sex,
you are now a virgin. You are a weeaboo,
a recist, an atheist, a rapist and a pedo.
You must live up to the /b/tard image.
You must become an awful human being.
You must delight in the pain of others.
You must enjoy that which our society
deems deviant, evil and wrong.
For you are /b/. We are /b/.
Go, /b/tards and spread our
ways to the unsuspecting.
-Anonymous


BTW, I'm a user. 4chan rules.

...it's a website that lets you post pictures and make comments about them.

Don't we already have one of those?

... with regard to dealing with threats such as these. Not that this applies to a blogger in the same way, though, but there's still good stuff in it.

http://www.4chan.org/blog/2006/01/14/the-anatomy-o f-a-legal-threat/

What a mean troll, there is no link to or mention of slashdot in there at all! You could at least make it more believable, fake sig stuff like that sticks out to non-logged in users.

I would say your trolling attempt is a disappointment, but mod point wise you are still doing quite well.

Fuck... If PJ wants some pedophiles to screw with, they should get the sickos at www.4chan.org.

OK, the copying of parent's comments for humorous plagiarism is getting real old, real fast. I feel like I'm friggin 4chan right now...I'm only about 20 comments into the discussion, and this joke has already showed up like 4-5 times :(

I'm reminded of a long article, and a reply to that article, on the topic of the usefulness of Anonymous posting on web forums. (If you're worried about the content of the second link, it's actually a blog, not one of the anonymous forums themselves.)

http://www.4chan.org/

Here's a screen capture of Katrina hitting the game world.

(originally stolen from http://data.4chan.org/b/src/1125712295576.jpg but mirrored for bandwidth).

You forgot 4chan!

Open Sauce king is dead serious.

When I read this, I keep thinking I'm on 4chan.

http://dis.4chan.org/read.php/dis/1124400519/1-40

It's a Sunday, it's August. So if we're browsing comments on a non-story I guess we're bored. There is a load of more cool Shockwave animation here.

well there goes my karma for posting in sleep dep mode. by html i meant whole webpages. the bandwidth that pours thorugh a site like http://www.4chan.org/ is entirely in image files, and very expensive, especially compared the the minimal size of a .torrent file. speaking in purely hypothetical example here, a site could be generated with an image tag pointing to img.torrentjpg, and the browser could dynamically download the file from the peers and server it up for others (especially with decentralized tracking gaining use). kind of like http://www.akamai.com/ for the common man with at focus on bandwidth savings rather than fast distrubution.

this is just one step closer to the dream of webpages being served as torrents. Imagine the benefit to mid level, and non commercial websites. http://www.4chan.org/ comes to mind as a major benefactor.

Just go check /b/ of http://www.4chan.org/, moderators there only remove child porn. If you truely claim that freedom to say and post almost anything is The True American Way then I really don't want to live there. The hueg Xbox might crush my PENIS if I did.

I am reminded of a very popular message board community whose site does not display well in IE. The admin just got fed up with dealing with IE's crap, and decided to just write standards compliant code with CSS. There's even a Firefox Toolbar, and a get Firefox link on the news page. See http://www.4chan.org/ WARNING:NSFW!!