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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

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411 points donpott | 4 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.873s | source
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idiomat9000 ◴[22 Aug 25 11:46 UTC] No.44983332[source]▶
Desperate politicians ,steering desperately against the right wing tide they created by showing everyone the reality of mass immigration to keep their business models and world afloat .
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1. geremiiah ◴[22 Aug 25 14:41 UTC] No.44985263[source]▶
4chan isn't rightwing and it never was, but since 2016 and especially since 2020 the userbase has been moving to the left, because at its core 4chan is always counter culture.
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2. idiomat9000 ◴[22 Aug 25 16:54 UTC] No.44986822[source]▶
But 4chan is most of all pro free speach, which is a different axis, which has opponents left, right and center .
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3. ACCount37 ◴[22 Aug 25 19:14 UTC] No.44988629[source]▶
4chan is the edgy counterculture, yes. So when the mainstream was leaning towards christian and right, it was leaning anti-theist libertarian left.

When the mainstream swung to the left, 4chan shifted too and became more right-leaning, and took a stance of performative opposition to political correctness. A similar shift is happening now - away from right wing again as right wing is becoming more mainstream.

4. immibis ◴[24 Aug 25 05:12 UTC] No.45001566[source]▶
Which speech is it pro free? It's not all speech. People get banned from 4chan.