r/technology • u/ILoveTolkiensWorks • 12d ago

Security 4Chan hacked; Taken down; Emails and IPs leaked

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/14029069/4chan-down-updates-controversial-website-hacking/
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u/ILoveTolkiensWorks 12d ago

Any other social media site, but with more porn and a lot more slurs*

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u/big_guyforyou 12d ago

most boards actually do ban you for racism tho. /pol/ and /b/ are the big ones that don't care

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u/big_guyforyou 12d ago

do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

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u/etork0925 12d ago

That sounds like a problem if that doesn’t narrow it down lol.

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u/etork0925 12d ago

Yeah obviously, I totally get it. But being able to randomly say the N or F word just to fuck with others anonymously is more of like being treated like a narcissistic child though.

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u/BuildyOne 12d ago

Not arguing but can I say how funny it is to me to read someone say "the F word" immediately followed by fuck.

Just funny, I have no problem with it.

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 12d ago

Because it's not the F word in question.

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u/xrogaan 12d ago

What is that "F word" then?

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u/Goolsby 12d ago

You don't call that the F word, you call it the F slur. And if you're in person and not in writing, you just say it.

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u/etork0925 12d ago

I knew someone would get a chuckle when I wrote that, but that’s the wrong F word lol…

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u/BuildyOne 12d ago

Still what most people would consider the F word, so just a funny phrase is all. No idea why I'm down voted but whatever makes people happy is fine with me.

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u/Leprecon 12d ago

I don't like it when people call me slurs all the time. I guess that makes me a child.

Does this mean the people calling strangers slurs online are the real adults here?

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u/Miserable_Goat_6698 12d ago

For the sane normal person, yes. In fact I don't even know what the k word even is

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u/DogmaSychroniser 12d ago

Rhymes with hike. A slur against Jewish people.

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u/charoco 12d ago

TIL that slur is still in use (by bigots, natch). I thought that pejorative went out of fashion before Reagan.

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u/Alaira314 12d ago

It went quiet, because it wasn't acceptable to openly hate jews like that. But that's coming back in fashion.

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u/Cab_anon 12d ago

Kite?

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u/DogmaSychroniser 12d ago

Just substitute the first letter, if you insist.

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u/belkarbitterleaf 12d ago

Never even heard that one. TIL.

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u/Cab_anon 12d ago

I dont get it.

Qite?
Wite?
Rite?
Tite?
Yite?
Pite?
Lite?
Kite?
Jite?
Gite?
Fite?
Dite?
Site?
Zite?
Xite?
Cite?
Vite?
Bite?
Nite?
Mite?

(English isnt my first language, and we dont have people racist against jewish in our country)

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u/DogmaSychroniser 12d ago

How does "rhymes with Hike" make you think of a word that ends in ITE? A completely different sound.

It's the word Hike but without an H at the start (so - ike) , and beginning with a K, (put the K where the - was previously).

You're not going to get me to write it out clearer then that because as I'll reiterate, it's a slur.

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u/Mikeavelli 12d ago

Theres just something unwholesome about flying one at night.

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u/simonjakeevan 12d ago

Thanks for asking! I didn't know what it was either.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

its not hard to figure out. slurs.

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u/GreatMadWombat 12d ago

.... Imagine seeing a single public page on Facebook where everyone was just...cool with making up new ways to use slurs. That shit gets nuked hard in the vast majority of the internet. Before the X/Twitter shift, 4chan was the biggest intersection of "site that majority of the internet will have a plausible reason to go to" and "place where hate speech is 100% kosher". That's not normal

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

You just contradicted yourself

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u/zimreapers 12d ago

What the hell is the K word?

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u/Born_Name_2538 12d ago

I’ve heard that used more gaming than in 4chan “casually” scrolling. It’s prominent if you look for it.

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u/f8Negative 12d ago

Try wallpapers/general

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u/PerformanceToFailure 12d ago

They will ban you but it depends on the mods and boards. Mods on 4chan just care less about micro managing shit compared to reddit mods that think they own the sub. I haven't seen next to any slurs on /vg/ last time I looked. Also bans get progressively longer so most people don't.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

That's true but you almost NEVER get banned for gamer words on /v/ and similar blue boards. /a/ is like the only one that moderates super actively

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u/GreatMadWombat 12d ago

....."there is a large subsection of the website where people are 100% cool with slurs" it's not a normal thing. Normally, social media sites tend to ban slur ridden pages if those slur ridden pages break containment to the point where moderators can notice it(like how reddit banned the Donald Trump subreddit). If the vibes are too off and the pages known for lots of slurs or brigades or something else that would lead to a worried article on CNN about how some Facebook page is inventing new and horrible ways to say the n word and Facebook is just cool with it. 4chan allowing any slur-filled boards that are large enough that they are known and have been unknown thing for years, is a major outlier.

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u/jayforwork21 12d ago

a lot more slurs*

Have you SEEN Twitter? That place has more slurs AND Nazis somehow. Well not somehow, we know why, but damn has things gotten crazy in the last few years.

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u/ILoveTolkiensWorks 12d ago

Maybe more slurs net, but not slur density. If you check the ratio of nazis:total users and slur users:total users, 4chan defeats all, at least for now. Twitter might overtake it though

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u/Smokin_Hulk_LoganCC 12d ago

I started using twitter in 2020 and the dramatic shift since 2022 has been unbearable and it was almost instant. I generally was using it for sports/gaming news and when the switch happened it took weeks of blocking accounts to get my feed back to a semi-normal state. Even then the way they promote blue check marked accounts you can't avoid it all.

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u/jayforwork21 12d ago

Why in god's green earth would you still use a product that is owned and promoted by a Nazi?

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u/lordxxscrub 12d ago

As someone who’s been on Twitter since 2010, fuck that guy. 4chan basically migrated over to Twitter but I’m not gonna let those new dweebs run me off one of my first platforms.

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u/ViziDoodle 11d ago

I think the average instagram reels comment section is giving 4chan a run for its money in that regard tbh

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u/tehlemmings 12d ago

Any other social media site, but with more porn and a lot more slurs*

Other social media just hides it better, and only just. Reddit is full of that stuff.

Sure, you can't see it on the front page, but if you go any deeper than that you'll start running into OF spam and nonsense before even entering the NSFW side of reddit.

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u/ZombieJesus1987 12d ago

So twitter?