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Author Topic: MIT research on 4chan and /b/  (Read 8929 times)

Phmcw

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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2011, 05:02:35 pm »

http://gizmodo.com/5813560/lulzsec-and-anonymous-declare-open-war-against-all-governments-and-fat-cats

What good is studying 4chan anyway. Itt isn't like anything important will ever come from there.
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #31 on: June 20, 2011, 05:08:50 pm »

Sorry to break it to you but a sizable chunk of the english speaking "internet culture" and memes we throw around are based on 4chan or 4chan related gibberish. ;)

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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #32 on: June 20, 2011, 05:09:18 pm »

http://gizmodo.com/5813560/lulzsec-and-anonymous-declare-open-war-against-all-governments-and-fat-cats

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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #33 on: June 20, 2011, 05:11:07 pm »

You have to realise that the people who call themselves "anonymous"/lulzsec doing cyberterrorism and such and the actual anonymous of 4chan/futaba related sites aren't the same thing.

The FBI realise that.

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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #34 on: June 20, 2011, 05:11:46 pm »

I like how racists and trolls are subgroups of retards. The non-existance of an intersection between girls and internet is hilarious though if you consider that 99% of the net is porn [/hyperbole]
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #35 on: June 20, 2011, 05:17:20 pm »

I said this on another thread yesterday, but I'll repeat the idea again.

"4chan, in particular /b/, was a site where intelligent individuals jokingly acted like idiots, racists, retards,  sexist pedophiles pushing the envelop of what was funny, horrific, and acceptable. Somewhere along the way the website became filled with idiots, racists, retards, sexists, and pedophiles that missed the joke."

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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #36 on: June 20, 2011, 05:17:55 pm »

Yeah, around day 1 or something...

I like how racists and trolls are subgroups of retards. The non-existance of an intersection between girls and internet is hilarious though if you consider that 99% of the net is porn [/hyperbole]
Also the wapanese consist of at least 65% males....
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #37 on: June 20, 2011, 05:19:32 pm »

Yeah, around day 1 or something...
That's true. /b/ was never good.  ;D

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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #38 on: June 20, 2011, 05:22:10 pm »

ED is still around under new management (and with a new Domain because the she-whale took the old one to redirect to her shitty new site). encyclopediadramatica.ch
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #39 on: June 20, 2011, 05:56:24 pm »

You have to realise that the people who call themselves "anonymous"/lulzsec doing cyberterrorism and such and the actual anonymous of 4chan/futaba related sites aren't the same thing.

The FBI realise that.
How effective are governments at in cracking down cyberterrorism? Cyberterrorism, right now, is not as damaging as, say, an actual terrorist attack, but it would seem much harder to trace down an individual taking part in it, much less anyone actually leading these cyber-terrorist organizations (if there is even a leader running the show).
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #40 on: June 20, 2011, 06:30:35 pm »

Interesting study, but I wish they went into memetics more than a sentence or two, but maybe I wasn't paying attention enough.
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #41 on: June 20, 2011, 08:13:32 pm »

The FBI realise that.
The FBI and Anonymous are also in a bizarre relationship. Sometimes they cooperate to "van" people, sometimes they try to screw each other over.
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #42 on: June 20, 2011, 08:22:02 pm »

The FBI realise that.
The FBI and Anonymous are also in a bizarre relationship. Sometimes they cooperate to "van" people, sometimes they try to screw each other over.

The difference is that the FBI is trying to uphold the law, whereas Anonymous is trying to uphold the hilarity.
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #43 on: June 20, 2011, 08:24:28 pm »

The FBI realise that.
The FBI and Anonymous are also in a bizarre relationship. Sometimes they cooperate to "van" people, sometimes they try to screw each other over.

The difference is that the FBI is trying to uphold the law, whereas Anonymous is trying to uphold the lulz.
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Re: MIT research on 4chan and /b/
« Reply #44 on: June 20, 2011, 08:27:15 pm »

The FBI realise that.
The FBI and Anonymous are also in a bizarre relationship. Sometimes they cooperate to "van" people, sometimes they try to screw each other over.

The difference is that the FBI is trying to uphold the law, whereas Anonymous is trying to uphold the lulz.
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I want the FBI to make a press release thanking Anonymous in one of these incidents. Just to see them do it. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation thanks Anonymous for their assistance in this recent joint operation, and hopes that they find the lulz resulting from it sufficent."

I would laugh forever.
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