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by codexon 565 days ago
There were no rules broken. Actually they selectively ignore the rule against racism as long as it is aligned with alt-right, and not just the pol board now.

https://4chan.org/rules

3. You will not post any of the following outside of /b/:

  b. Racism
The political bias of the moderators on the website have been documented by others.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4cha...

They selectively censor any opposing views that rile them too hard or they can't easily refute, so it is not equivalent to bathroom scribbles.

Recent example just found today (not my post).

https://i.imgur.com/0Xkslke.jpeg

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>https://i.imgur.com/0Xkslke.jpeg

That thread is about the Spanish movie "La piel que habito,"[0] and that OP post is actually describing the plot, it's not even a political post. So bringing up American Republicans out of nowhere is quite off topic. Strange how you conveniently cropped out the title and image that ostensibly showed this. Is this the best you can do?

[0] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_piel_que_habito

It's not entirely unrelated to the discussion and I guarantee you if someone said something aligned with alt-right, instead it would not have been censored.

Examples

https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/206317377/

https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/206526786/#q206527439

https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/206199053/#q206200223

https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/206521664/#q206526548

An article about 4chan from left media is something I won't read. Not a boomer, I can actually read 4chan anyways and make my own mind.

Image related is unfortunate. Not uncommon for jannies and mods in any website to use their power to self serve. It happens even in more serious and regulated sites like wikipedia, so I'm not surprised by the lack of moderation neutrality in a meme site.

> Image related is unfortunate. Not uncommon for jannies and mods in any website to use their power to self serve.

This isn't just a 1 off thing by rogue moderators is what I'm trying to point out. This is a constantly re-occurring thing. I also experienced the same issue multiple times until I got fed up with it and stopped posting there a few years ago.

Their main moderator had a goal to make 4chan politically aligned with his views. 4chan used to be free speech but it really isn't anymore.

I tried to post and got this

"Please wait for the timer or verify your email to post"

As a captcha

I used to get an ip block ban. But asking for my email to post in 4chan is just proof of how much it has changed.