--- Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I would dispute your assessment actually, having visited the > site. > It's all porn, and a lot of it is hentai - drawn pictures of nude > girls.
"all porn"? It is rare for /b/ to have more than a couple of porn threads. 4chan does have dedicated porn and hentai boards, /s/ /d/ and /h/, but these have not been blocked. Also 4chan hosts numerous forums definetely non-porn in nature like /g/, /co/, /k/, /po/, /v/, all the world4ch text boards etc. Many of these are quite heavilly moderated and 'safe for work' even. /b/ is frequently compared to the somethingawful.com FYAD forum (http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=115), it's more anarchic due to the lack of accounts but otherwise fairly similar, i.e. stupid discussions / invasions / trolling and meme floods. Not exactly the cream of internet discourse, but often amusing just the same. /b/ is easily 4chan's most popular board, and 4chan itself is *very* popular - the "2,320th most visited site on the internet" no less. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan . It's not exactly a shadowy underground legally dubious site. > While it is not entirely clear what their age is, *simulated* child > porn is illegal in most countries. Including the US where 4chan has been hosted for years, and accordingly anything meeting such criteria is deleted/permabanned. If the ban were so broad as to ban all hentai just in case then logically /h/ and /d/ would be blocked, amongst many many other sites, but they aren't. I would *speculate* therefore that this block *may* be the result of a malicious report timed to coincide with a deliberate scripted flood of actual cp. No-account imageboards like 4chan are particularly vulnerable to such an attack, and it is not especially difficult to gather enough anonymous proxies and/or compromised PCs to conduct one with little risk. If this is the case any forum which allows image posting (most of them) is theoretically now at risk from being secretly censored from (at least) UK citizens, with questionable comeback at best, by similar snap judgements of people not familiar with the site or how it works. I maintain that this is a serious problem. Just for the record, I don't like hentai of any description or even care about anime in general. 4chan /b/ is just somewhere I like(d?) to waste time participating in idiocy. Too much time actually, so it being censored does have an upside, but that's not the point. > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:19:13AM +0100, Bob wrote: > > > > However, it appears they have now blocked 4chan.org's "/b/ - > Random" > > imageboard : > > http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html -- snip -- Bob ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
