At the time at which I visited the site it appeared at first glance to be as I described.
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:35:35AM +0100, Bob wrote: > --- 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 > -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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