<story><title>4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcbro141</author><text>In order list of threads from browsing &amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F; for people who want to know how &amp;#x27;diverse&amp;#x27; it is without visiting:&lt;p&gt;- Anti-vax&lt;p&gt;- Anti-gay parents&lt;p&gt;- Goose&lt;p&gt;- Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of &amp;quot;i hope all ni**rs die&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- Praising George Floyd mural vandalism&lt;p&gt;- Anti-transgender&lt;p&gt;- Praising white nationalism&amp;#x2F;white ethnostate&lt;p&gt;- Praising &amp;#x27;national rape day&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;- Anti-Islam&lt;p&gt;- Anti-race mixing&lt;p&gt;- Illuminati&lt;p&gt;- Celebrating police shooting blacks&lt;p&gt;- British royals news&lt;p&gt;- Anti-mask, anti-Biden&lt;p&gt;- Silver&lt;p&gt;- Anti-liberal white women as betrayers of the white race&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind I just am reading the threads in order. This is not diverse &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;. Maybe &amp;#x27;diverse&amp;#x27; in the sense that these white supremacists are posting from across North America and Europe. This is almost all far right white supremacist and misogynist talking points (strong overlap between the 2), almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men.</text></item><item><author>okareaman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time on 4chan&amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F; for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don&amp;#x27;t think Google would have hired him if it weren&amp;#x27;t for that redeeming quality.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It&amp;#x27;s anonymous so people around the world can express themselves - even in a way I might find horrifying - and I can get an idea of concerns people have, though they might be concerns left unsaid im polite society.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s anonymous but your national flag is automatically assigned, and if you hide this or use a &amp;quot;meme flag&amp;#x27;
 like a pirate flag, you will be criticized and ignored as a likely troll, trying a &amp;quot;false flag&amp;quot; operation.&lt;p&gt;4chan&amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F; is interesting, I don&amp;#x27;t know about the other boards since I don&amp;#x27;t visit them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anon1096</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s plenty of other boards on 4chan where you can find people from all viewpoints posting. &amp;#x2F;cgl&amp;#x2F; is well known to be majority female, and posters on &amp;#x2F;lit&amp;#x2F; usually express center or left viewpoints. Even on &amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F;, within a thread there will often be dissenters from the normal far-right average poster. Compared to other sites like Reddit where communities and posters with certain viewpoints are straight up banned, it&amp;#x27;s a breath of fresh air.</text></comment>
<story><title>4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcbro141</author><text>In order list of threads from browsing &amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F; for people who want to know how &amp;#x27;diverse&amp;#x27; it is without visiting:&lt;p&gt;- Anti-vax&lt;p&gt;- Anti-gay parents&lt;p&gt;- Goose&lt;p&gt;- Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of &amp;quot;i hope all ni**rs die&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- Praising George Floyd mural vandalism&lt;p&gt;- Anti-transgender&lt;p&gt;- Praising white nationalism&amp;#x2F;white ethnostate&lt;p&gt;- Praising &amp;#x27;national rape day&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;- Anti-Islam&lt;p&gt;- Anti-race mixing&lt;p&gt;- Illuminati&lt;p&gt;- Celebrating police shooting blacks&lt;p&gt;- British royals news&lt;p&gt;- Anti-mask, anti-Biden&lt;p&gt;- Silver&lt;p&gt;- Anti-liberal white women as betrayers of the white race&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind I just am reading the threads in order. This is not diverse &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;. Maybe &amp;#x27;diverse&amp;#x27; in the sense that these white supremacists are posting from across North America and Europe. This is almost all far right white supremacist and misogynist talking points (strong overlap between the 2), almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men.</text></item><item><author>okareaman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time on 4chan&amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F; for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don&amp;#x27;t think Google would have hired him if it weren&amp;#x27;t for that redeeming quality.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It&amp;#x27;s anonymous so people around the world can express themselves - even in a way I might find horrifying - and I can get an idea of concerns people have, though they might be concerns left unsaid im polite society.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s anonymous but your national flag is automatically assigned, and if you hide this or use a &amp;quot;meme flag&amp;#x27;
 like a pirate flag, you will be criticized and ignored as a likely troll, trying a &amp;quot;false flag&amp;quot; operation.&lt;p&gt;4chan&amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F; is interesting, I don&amp;#x27;t know about the other boards since I don&amp;#x27;t visit them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>Subcultures have shibboleths. In the same way WallStreetBets wasn&amp;#x27;t making fun of the mentally handicapped, it would be dangerous to take any chan at face value.&lt;p&gt;Shibboleths exist to exclude people outside the subculture stereotype - and a good way of doing that is to be offensive. Some subcultures desire to remain as subcultures.&lt;p&gt;Part of why shibboleths work is because we as a species tend to stop engaging rationally the moment we feel attacked - we switch to being defensive and actually entrench our own values further.&lt;p&gt;The 4chan shibboleth attacks everyone. No matter who you are or how you identify you&amp;#x27;re going to be debased and mocked openly - that&amp;#x27;s kind of the point.</text></comment>