BAKER
WTF is this?
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Baker has in one stroke destroyed two principles of this forum: Limiting Free Speech and Removing Sauce
Limiting Free Speech
8chan was created in October 2013 when its creator, Frederick Brennan, began to feel that 4chan was becoming too authoritarian.
8chan was built as a place for radical free speech. Its only rule is that users must not post content illegal in the United States.
https://observer.com/2015/08/google-blocks-8chan-from-search/
Do you actively scour the site for illegal content?
I forbid that. It’s too much of a, you know, a legal problem. We don’t do active moderation, which is a lot different than 4chan, which does do active moderation.
All the boards at 8chan are made by users, not me. All of 4chan’s were made by Moot—before he retired. He decided the names, the URLs. The only ones I decided on were "meta," which is help; "news"; and the "b" board, the random board for anything you wanna post. That’s it. Three boards. The site that we have is just too massive for any kind of active moderation.
Not only that, I don’t feel like active moderation would help. It certainly didn’t help 4chan for 11 years. It just pissed all the users off and [4chan] still appeared in the news just as much any time something bad happened.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/were-a-common-carrier-8chans-founder-on-the-link-between-doxing-net-freedom/3/
Removing Sauce
Sauce is a tool used to help identify valid content versus false or misleading content. With sauce, pictures and video footage can be reviewed to determine photoshopping or video manipulation such as cgi or other graphic manipulations. By removing sauce you limit anons being able to verify the content.
Now that you've crossed the line, those who disagree with your decision will post gore to fuck with you.