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It was recently revealed that 8chan is funded primarily by selling sex tourism-themed audio books on Amazon. To my knowledge, Amazon has still not answered requests for comments, nor have they discontinued funding.

Here's the article: https://popular.info/p/exclusive-how-money-flows-from-amazon

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Jim Watkins owns a lot of things, including 2channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel), a pig farm, and a VPS/VPN/webhosting provider. It's unlikely that those audiobooks are the biggest source of income.

While some of the audio books are somewhat unpalatable, it is only some. This article seems really angled though, is 8ch.net really so dangerous?

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