Justin Ling🆒️Since last year, I've been obsessed with teasing apart who really owns — and finances — 4chan.
Well, I finally cracked it. https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/
Aral Balkan@justinling Excellent piece. Thank you.
PS. Pleasantly surprised to see Wired publishing actual journalism. I thought they only published surveillance capitalism press releases.
Aral Balkan (@[email protected])
This: “The fact that 4chan became both more hateful and more prominent after 2015 is a feature, not a bug … It was all business.” https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/ Just reminded me of this: “International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691 #4chan #ibm #holocaust #business
J.H.NoyesThey're unrepentant amplifiers of immunofabulist narratives, too.