Hacker News Reader

Comment by hmmmcurious1 | Hacker News Reader

It's so sad that nation level agents have infiltrated the moderator team and are now pushing divisive anti western ideas and also grooming fifth columnists to create havoc in the western world. Most of the boards I frequented in the past outright ban you for saying anything remotely against russia and china but promote all sorts of demoralization threads regarding the west. I guess someone has to pay the server costs but with a huge detriment towards the authenticity and culture that characterized old 4chan

View on HN

I'm sure there are always some people looking into 4chan as a place to spread an agenda due to the ease of posting, no need for an account, popularity, etc. However, banning for "anything remotely against russia and china" is a silly exaggeration. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, my best guess is that you posted on some of the boards with tighter moderation, and what you posted was simply off topic. Most boards still prune off-topic shitposting somewhat reliably.

Not to the exclusion of other peoples, you can find plenty of gleeful posts about the brutal deaths of Russians and Chinese, or just simply mocking their societies/industries, at any given time on at least three boards, off the top of my head.

The fact that 4chan has mods that moderate towards their own biases is extremely well known.

You are very new (t)here.

It's a glowie/shill cesspool, not at all authentic.

I found some great friends from 4chan -> IRC channels, we all fell away eventually, but it was a good 15 years of my life.

Now I couldn't even imagine taking to these people. I don't think it's just because I'm older, either.

And I'm only taking about gee

So odd to see someone using "glowie" in the wild

As an example try writing anything that exposes the darker side of russian culture on /int/ during russian daytime hours. Of course the amerifat threads and the threads about how europe is losing relevance are allowed despite being news and thus for pol not int

Have you ever visited 4chan?

There is literally dedicated anti-Russian thread (/uhg/) on /pol/ and also plenty of anti-Chinese sentiment all over the board, I don't think day can pass without someone making fun of Changs and Zhangs.

/k/ is full of pro-Ukraine glowies so maybe try that board first.

Otherwise it's more balanced. /pol/ has both /uhg/ (Ukrainian Happening General; mostly pro Ukraine) and /chug/ (Comfy Happening in Ukraine General; pro Russian). /chug/ as its name implies is more comfy and has anime girls. /uhg/ is quite nasty and mostly posts gore of Russian soldiers.

In a way its hilarious that you're proving OPs point that state actors are influencing the board. It's also interesting that you're not denying that russia/china is influencing 4chan. You're just saying that america does it as well.

You mean you can no longer post threads like this?

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/442998412

(NSFW obviously)

You can post memes about beheading Chinese people on 4chan and no one will bat an eye.

The point is that 4chan will ban you for innocent things, if a moderator disagrees with you, funnily enough criticizing video game censorship and journalists is bannable as well. But does not ban for extreme racism and violent content like that. It's not a free speech site anymore and hasn't been for quite a few years now, basically.. it's just a racism site.

Are you claiming that Russia or China are paying 4chan moderators? That seems unlikely for an American website owned by a Japanese millionaire.

Why is that unlikely? Nobody else is paying moderators. Prigozhin made the Internet Research Agency which we know conducts influence operations, it would be amazing if China didn't have a similar group.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com