Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 13, 2015 @05:36PM from the wiping-it-clean dept.

AmiMoJo writes On Monday, imageboard site 8chan's "baphomet" subboard, an Internet destination known for hosting aggressive "doxing" posts, received a major history wipe the day after one of its users posted the personal information of a federal judge in the Silk Road case. A follow-up post by baphomet's "Board Owner" account stated that "HW," a reference to site founder Frederick "hotwheels" Brennan, deleted "the SSN posts" and told the baphomet board founder, previously identified via an associated Twitter handle as Benjamin Biddix, to "lay low." The same day baphomet's "Board Owner" announced a "doxing for hire" service due to "running low on funds."

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Re: further translation needed by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-13 20:07 · Score: 5, Informative

The Anon who said "They're English-language clones of 2chan, which is in Japanese." explained 4chan's origin.
8chan was basically what happened when moot (who was 4chan's admin until his retirement a few weeks ago) banned #gamergate and fucked with /pol/. (Translation: Even he got sick of the gamergaters, and the fact that none of the political whackjobs could keep their shit in the /pol/itics containment board, so he fucked with 'em for the lulz. I thought it was funny as fuck.)
tl;dr: 8ch exists because there are people for whom 4chan is too polite.