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4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, music, history, anime, fitness, politics, and sports, among others.
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Common /pol/ content involves discussion of history, far-right ideologies, hatred of black people, hatred and sexual exploitation of women and girls and current news. A 2020 report categorized about 36% of news sources frequently posted to the board by American users as "junk news", a category that includes sources considered to be propaganda, sens...
Prior to the creation of /pol/, there were two boards intended for discussing news that had been added and removed from the site. The first of these was /n/, which was added on 8 April 2006. It replaced /n/'s previous topic of animals and nature, which was moved to the /an/ board. /n/'s topic was changed to transportation on 19 February 2008, witho...
/pol/ has been characterized as predominantly racist and sexist, with many of its posts taking explicitly alt-right and neo-Nazi points of view. In particular, the board is infamous for the prevalence of antisemitic threads and memes. One common antisemitic meme on /pol/ is the Happy Merchant. Southern Poverty Law Center regards /pol/'s rhetorical ...
Influence
A 2017 quantitative analysis found that /pol/ was an important influencer of news content on Twitter, with the board contributing 3% of mainstream news links and 1.96% of alternative news links on Twitter (as a fraction of all links co-appearing on Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan). The researchers concluded that "'fringe' communities often succeed in spreading alternative newsto mainstream social networks".
Content and userbase
According to a 2017 longitudinal study, using a dataset of over 8million posts, /pol/ is a diverse ecosystem with users well-distributed around the world. The percentage of posts containing hate speech ranges from 4.15% (e.g., in Indonesia, Arab countries) to 30% (e.g., China, Bahamas, Cyprus). Elevated use of hate speech is seen in Western European countries (e.g., Italy, Spain, Greece, and France). They also examined raids performed by /pol/ users against other platforms, particularly YouTu...
Research design
A study published in New Media & Society in January 2022 discussed the interactions between /pol/ users and the researchers who study their community. The study observed the reactions of /pol/ users to a research workshop dedicated to studying them. The researchers suggested that studies that aim to learn about the /pol/ community and its users should take into account (for research designpurposes) that they may be aware of observation by external entities, "rather than seeing it as a communi...
Jokubauskaitė, Emilija; Peeters, Stijn (2020). "Generally Curious: Thematically Distinct Datasets of General Threads on 4chan/Pol/". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Soci...Crawford, Blyth; Keen, Florence; de-Tangil, Guillermo Suarez (15 December 2020). "Memetic Irony and the Promotion of Violence within Chan Cultures" (PDF). Centre for Research and Evidence on Securi...Hagen, Sal (2020). Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology. "'Trump Shit Goes into Overdrive': Tracing Trump on 4chan/pol/". M/C Journal. 23 (3). doi:10.5204/mcj.1657. hd...Jin, J.; Williams, E.; Lams, S.; Savas, O.; Hohman, E.; Bosch-Ruiz, M.; Rodrigues, P. (5 November 2020). "Analysis of evolution of meme trends on 4chan.org's /pol/ board via image clustering" (PDF)...4chan is an English language website based on the Japanese Futaba Channel where people can post and discuss pictures and other images. Sites such as these are called imageboards. It was started in 2003 by "moot" also known as Christopher Poole, who was 15 years old at the time.
C'est pourquoi 4chan (et les autres imageboards) propose une forme alternative pour sécuriser l'identité des utilisateurs : les tripcodes. Ils permettent notamment d’identifier à qui l’on s’adresse lors d’une discussion argumentée (lorsqu’il devient nécessaire de pouvoir distinguer ses interlocuteurs) [ 31 ] .
As part of UK sanctions against Russia, ISPs are required to take "reasonable steps to prevent" users accessing "an internet service provided by" a person or organisation sanctioned by the UK government. This effectively means blocking websites operated by such organisations.
Site Name (s)Domain (s) Or Url (s)Type Of Site (s)Reason (s)imgur.comTechnical fault [17]imgur.comTechnical implementation [14]Specific address range (s) used by imgur.Technical issue with content lock systemRadio Times and hundreds more [10] [11]radiotimes.com plus many moreDNS provider and its customersTechnical implementation4chan is a platform that allows its users to post anonymously. It is divided into different boards, with all dedicated to a fixed topic ranging from video games, anime, politics, to even random...
Nov 8, 2014 · 4chan’s roots date back to a pre-Facebook age of the Internet, where anonymity ruled and rules were few to come by. Hackers deposited nude celebrity photos on the site over the summer.
