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by NikkiA 2510 days ago
8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up, as such they have no real control even over people running pedo boards.

That is pretty obviously 'lawless by design'.
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55555 2510 days ago
> 8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up

How is this implemented?

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duskwuff 2510 days ago
> How is this implemented?

By throwing up their hands and claiming that it's too hard to implement.

8ch is not running a highly sophisticated software stack. (Quite honestly, their code [1] is pretty terrible -- it's a bunch of frameworkless, hacked-together PHP.) Nothing about their setup is especially elaborate or unusual; at best, "we can't ban content" is an admission of their incompetence.

[1]: https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB

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NikkiA 2510 days ago
The only people that can ban content are the board owners.

Sure I imagine they could go db diving and ban content manually, but they don't want to.

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