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"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform
Hugh Pickens writes "Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as 'Moot,' founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to wildly disturbing images and language. Poole, now 22, started 4chan when he was 15 after he discovered a Japanese image-board Web forum called 2chan dedicated to anime. 'The code for 2chan was publicly available and I took it and translated it from Japanese to English using tools online and I threw it up on the Web and sent it out to 20 people,' says Poole. 'I wanted to keep with the 2chan naming and the URL for 3chan was taken at the time so I just jumped to the next number.' Although 4chan gets 8.2 million unique visitors every month, 600 million page loads per month, and 800,000 new posts a day, Poole is working on a new project to reimagine what an image board should be today using the current technologies available."
will be fresh meat for horny inmates after the lack of understanding of online law about what they post.
Very recent example of this is the student who posted his threat of a university massacre to 4chan. The Swedish police got the willing and eager help of moot to track him down and he is now spending time on a a few years paid vacation in Swedish jail.
In other news, a Swedish couple got fined for FAKE sex. It is not known if they would have been fined if they had actually had REAL sex.