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8 chan getting canned was hilariously incompetent work by the FBI. they literally samefagged themselves posting the manifesto then saved their own thread with the included post IDs and (You)s from samefagging themselves, and used that as documented proof that the site needed to be shut down due to "violent extremism". the only reason they were able to do it was because that site was a backwater with a few hundred (if that) users they could bully without any resistance.

the difference is that 4chan is mainstream with millions of active browsers and people who come here to vent shit in an anonymous but perfectly legal and constitutionally protected manner that they can't say on leftist sites without getting censored, while 8 was the kind of small website that the outcasts among outcasts go to when they're banned even from somewhere like 4chan. by trying to close 4chan they would ironically be creating hundreds of thousands of new extremists and thousands of smaller, more fringe websites like 8 chan that they don't have the manpower let alone competency to identify and monitor.

tl;dr censorship creates extremism
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