Comment by fruitworks

1 day ago

I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.

4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack. It's been pretty much abandoned by its owner hiromoot.

If they aren't going to update the site for basic maintainance, they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I suppose a resistance to change is good when your competitors are burying their own graves.

You can ban 75% of the web if your concern is outdated tech stacks and/or data breaches

  • I think they're saying that 4chan is not responding bc there is limited people at the helm, not that the UK gov is upset at their security.

  • 75%? Are you being generous because it's weekend?

    • Agreed--if the concern is data breaches, we can just ban 100% of databases, even those offline.

      If it's outdated tech stacks, I'm sometimes in favor of those. Move fast and break things isn't always the best.

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4chan got hacked because of some outdated dependency used for uploading PDF files, which was some obscure feature only available to some boards. The actual website does get maintained.

If the owner doesn't care about it and it's got such a strong network effect, what's stopping somebody from buying it and implementing the SomethingAwful monetization model, where it's free until you get banned and then $10 for every unbanning?

I laughed at hiromoot. Very clever nickname

If that were the case I'd expect them to block UK IPs (or ignore the threats entirely) rather than fighting it legally.

I wonder what they're going to do when the states mandating age verification for pornographic content start coming for them.

Very similar to these dystopian foreign laws. But because they're US states 4chan will not be able to use the "we only recognize US law" defense.

> I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.... they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I read this as a plain contradiction.

> they were running a totally outdated software stack.

And this as a convenient pretense.