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2. 8chan GayOps Operation
Whilst Olson would become well-known for his infamous video and the meltdown on Channel Awesome leading up to his firing, he is best-known for his involvement with Laurelai Bailey in an attempt to get 8chan offlined, to help destabilize and destroy GamerGate.
The plan itself centered around Laurelai Bailey, a tranny lolcow known for causing a lot of drama in every community he's in, setting up a honeypot in the form of 8chan's new /hebe/ board, which was started by Laurelai. By luring in would-be pedophiles, she would set up 8chan so they would upload child porn and jailbait material for Dan Olson to "find." Once Olson could "prove" the connection, he'd set up an article attempting to frame the website as nothing but pedophiles, the article itself would be called "The Mods are Always Asleep"
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Laurelai's involvement in the plan wound ultimately wound up undermining it. Those familiar with Laurelai were quick to make his involvement known: first, the headlining thread on /hebe/ featured a link to an IRC channel hosted on starrevolution.org. A simple IP trace quickly showed that starrevolution.org shared an IP address with multiple other sites - including Laurelai Bailey's personal website and SJWiki, which Laurelai is the proprietress of.
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Finally, it was discovered that Olson had a pre-existing relationship with Laurelai, both contacting her repeatedly via Twitter and being a routine editor of SJWiki
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You may have already noticed discerned a flaw in Olson's plan, which is essentially that Olson himself downloaded what he described as Child Porn to smear 8chan (and subsequently GamerGate) in the article. Indeed, if Dan's claims had been accurate, he would be guilty of both possession and distribution of Child Pornography. Ironically, much of the content he did post in his article was not classified as Child Porn in the USA, where 8chan is established; however, such content does qualify as it under Canadian statutes, especially given Olson's vivid description of the images in question. As Gallant lives in Canada himself, people began trolling him in response to this by reporting him to Canadian police for these very actions, which caused Olson to lay low directly in response.
This part of the OP is inaccurate. I talked about the issues in the restoration project thread:
This...6. Not long after this, it would come out that Dan was an active member of Crash Override Network, Zoe Quinn's dubious non-profit, in which it would turn out he was instrumental to the defunding campaign against 8chan - using a honeypot to set up CP for Dan to "find" and report. The person who set this up, purportedly, was Laurelai Bailey. He would then chase this by being part of the team that attempted to run interference on behalf of fellow CON member Sarah Nyberg, after Nyberg had been outed as a pedophile who had already had encounters with law enforcement.
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I could be wrong, but I think those boards were not created as honeypot. While I believe Frederick Brennan has since changed his position on the matter, here is an article with some of his comments from 2014 when he was still the admin of 8chan.
Note that this article came out about a month before Dan Olson's piece: https://web.archive.org/web/2014112...litics/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gamergate/
Note that this article came out about a month before Dan Olson's piece: https://web.archive.org/web/2014112...litics/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gamergate/
I asked him about a forum called /doll/, which hosts provocative photos of barely clothed little girls.
“If you want /doll/ shut down,” he countered...
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If you'd like to know more, there's a thread on those groups which was made about a year later: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/8chans-pedo-communities.15890/Then there you go, it was 8chan being retarded. Confirmed.
I don't know exactly when he became part of their team, but Null has spoken a few times about his issues with CP while he worked on 8chan. He said that "Google's crawlers had stopped indexing 8chan altogether because of the common occurrence of child pornography on the site in the form of ads shilling CP websites."
One of the biggest reasons that I...
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