- Joined
- Dec 25, 2019
Not necessarily. The current administration is taking more extreme measures than the previous one. New people, new ideas, new rules."
I'm not personally sold on the honeypot theory myself, but the recent leaks do make me lean towards the idea that 4chan was controlled opposition all along. The leaks about the censored words and mods controlling speech at least make me raise an eyebrow. They were also censoring about Gamergate and certain politics. It seems 4chan wasn't the untouched habitat we were led to believe, at least.
If it wasn't the government, then it was a clique of admins on that I have no doubt.

4chan is absolutely phoning home to the federal government, like pretty much any sufficiently large USA-based website is going to do. The staff of 4chan are the sort of limp-wristed people who, in times of antiquity, would be the first to start feeding intel to the British on George Washington's movements. Don't trust any website to stick their neck out on behalf of any user. Always assume anyone operating any given website dislikes you enough to help get you prosecuted for thought crime. If Ghislaine Maxwell wasn't important enough for Reddit (for example) to try and preserve her identity or not fork over her account information, you don't stand a chance.