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The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:05 am
by chris
Enjoy your free internet while it lasts
http://www.centralgadget.com/att-blocking-access-to-portions-of-4chan-2336/ and say hello to the great firewall of America coming in a few years.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:23 am
by Maglok
Sucks to be in America.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:29 am
by DrumsofWar
I saw this and really, who cares? 4chan getting blocked is like YTMND suddenly losing its host - the best thing to happen to the Internet since AOL folded into a pile of crap.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:12 pm
by GreatGodSajuuk
Also this will never work too. It's as if /b/ cannot ever be relocated anywhere ever...
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:28 pm
by DrumsofWar
Or the fact that 4chan, which is filled with some fairly technically astute members, won't find a way around any kind of block. This is up there with the furor over Youtube giving preferences to paid partner videos instead of webcam stuff and disabling AMVs - it's Internet drama and it's legal.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:06 pm
by Mucky
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:26 pm
by Rocco
They wouldve just made a new site if it got completely blocked, or closed, people always do, its like trying to stop illegal downloading they aren't going to do it.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:51 pm
by DrumsofWar
AT&T did the Internet equivalent yesterday of poking a beehive with a stick: the company blocked parts of 4chan, the Internet forum known for its pranks, hacks and the invention of the Rickroll (see AT&T Blocks 4chan). Within hours, the site’s members had begun their attacks on AT&T, including the creation of a fake rumor about the death of AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson with the intent to lower AT&T’s stock price.
Don't fuck with 4chan.
For those who are really interested in people keeping the Internet free, check out
all the cases that the EFF is fighting on our behalf.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:01 am
by Zilla-
lol4chan
its about time someone did something about it
4chan was never good and its gotten progressively worse, i wouldn't mind a world without it personally
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:33 pm
by Lavarinth
I don't even know what 4chan is.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:53 pm
by GreatGodSajuuk
Some people would consider you an internet virgin then. As 4chan violates you in ways that are hard to describe...
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:03 pm
by Rocco
4chan is a collection of crazed internet goers that have nothing better to do than post stupid pictures and stupid forum topics.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:27 pm
by UntamedLoli
You just described majority of the boards out there.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:52 pm
by IskatuMesk
Rocco wrote:
The internet is a collection of retards that have nothing better to do than post stupid pictures and stupid forum topics.
Fixed.
Re: The beginning of the end
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:01 pm
by Mr.
I think that the creation of 4chan was the actual beginning of the end. Of civilization.