The beginning of the end

[DrumsofWar]

You just described majority of the boards out there.

Except most of those boards don't have several gigs of 9/11 joke pics, bestiality/scat pics, and even worse. 

[UntamedLoli]

Because the entire board has those right.

[thebrowncloud]

Except most of those boards don't have several gigs of 9/11 joke pics, bestiality/scat pics, and even worse.

I went once and that was all I saw. I'm emotionally scarred to this day..... *sob*

[Aiursrage2k]

It starts with 4chan than its escalates to banning starcraf2 like the dirty commies

The scheduled exhibition matches of Starcraft 2 for ChinaJoy 2009 on July 23rd would have become the first starcraft 2 open event around the world, predating the ones to be held in South Korea on July 24th, featuring the much-anticipated face-off between Moon and Nada.

However, at the moment when all Chinese fans were cheering the upcoming opportunity to get a closer look at the masterpiece by Blizzard, there came a sad news, saying, Starcraft 2 was banned by authorities from being exhibited on this year’s ChinaJoy.

Again, Blizzard failed when facing Chinese goverment.

The detailed cause of ban remains unkown. Up till now, Two accounts were given unofficially by online media.

The former said that The State Bureau Of Culture called a halt to Starcraft 2 on ChinaJoy, for “Starcraft 2 is much too bloody, which will severely effect the mental as well as physical health of adolescents”.

http://digg.com/d3yN2t

[GreatGodSajuuk]

In other words :
Starcraft is not fit to be played in our glorious communist nation of china because it has no red stars and people speak of freedom there!

[Rocco]

Yeah, freeing the galaxy from the Confederacy must have promoted too much liberty for them commies.

[AA7Dragoon]

Isn't it ironic how communist governments are just as socially conservative as theocratic or conservative governments?

"StarCraft 2 is too bloody!  The violence will hurt teenagers' young minds!"

Yet they burn down places of worship and kill religious citizens.

[GreatGodSajuuk]

No no no. You got it all wrong. They just deal with enemies of the folk. Brutally...

[DrumsofWar]

Because the entire board has those right.

No, but it definitely has more than your average bear.  Hey, I don't think 4chan deserved to be blocked and freedom of speech is freedom of speech within certain ownership and constitutional boundaries, but if we'd have to pick a battle, I'd hardly put 4chan at the top of the list of sites that need defending.

[thebrowncloud]

No, but it definitely has more than your average pedobear.  Hey, I don't think 4chan deserved to be blocked and freedom of speech is freedom of speech within certain ownership and constitutional boundaries, but if we'd have to pick a battle, I'd hardly put 4chan at the top of the list of sites that need defending.

Fixed

[chris]

The internet is a collection of retards that have nothing better to do than post stupid pictures and stupid forum topics.

Fixed.

hahaha I love you

[Hercanic]

Isn't it ironic how communist governments are just as socially conservative as theocratic or conservative governments?

"StarCraft 2 is too bloody!  The violence will hurt teenagers' young minds!"

Yet they burn down places of worship and kill religious citizens.

Communist governments have never been communist. Their removal of religion is less about atheism and more about uprooting challenges to their power and monopolizing control of the people.

[Zilla-]

For the past three weeks, 4chan has been under a constant DDoS attack. We were able to filter this specific type of attack in a fashion that was more or less transparent to the end user.

Unfortunately, as an unintended consequence of the method used, some Internet users received errant traffic from one of our network switches. A handful happened to be AT&T customers.

In response, AT&T filtered all traffic to and from our img.4chan.org IPs (which serve /b/ & /r9k/) for their entire network, instead of only the affected customers. AT&T did not contact us prior to implementing the block. Here is their statement regarding the matter.

In the end, this wasn't a sinister act of censorship, but rather a bit of a mistake and a poorly executed, disproportionate response on AT&T's part. Whoever pulled the trigger on blackholing the site probably didn't anticipate [nor intend] the consequences of doing so.

We're glad to see this short-lived debacle has prompted renewed interest and debate over net neutrality and internet censorship—two very important issues that don't get nearly enough attention—so perhaps this was all just a blessing in disguise.

[Rocco]

Wow I didn't know anyone at 4chan knew proper grammar.

[mAc Chaos]

Isn't it ironic how communist governments are just as socially conservative as theocratic or conservative governments?

"StarCraft 2 is too bloody!  The violence will hurt teenagers' young minds!"

Yet they burn down places of worship and kill religious citizens.

Communist governments have never been communist. Their removal of religion is less about atheism and more about uprooting challenges to their power and monopolizing control of the people.

Yeah, so... Communist.