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A Southern California school board has voted to approve a social studi curriculum for elementary stunts, rolvg a dispute wh Gov. Gav Newsom over lson plans that mentned the state's first openly gay elected public official. The Temecula Valley Unified School District had prevly voted to reject the curriculum part bee some board members were ncerned the curriculum's supplementary material mentned Harvey Milk, the former San Francis supervisor and gay rights advote who was assassated 1978.

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CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

Temecula Valley district had prevly rejected the material due to s cln of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk * gay chan board *

Those textbooks do not ply wh a 2011 state law that requir schools to teach stunts about the historil ntributns of gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins. 5m if didn’t approve the board voted to reject the material May and even s acceptance of the curriculum on Friday said would strike out anythg mentng Harvey Milk, the gay rights activist and polician who was assassated along wh San Francis mayor Gee Mosne 1978.

Milk, who has bee a totemic figure the ph for LGBTQ+ equaly the US, is thought to have been the first openly gay person to be elected to public office do not feature the new social studi textbook, a school board member told CNN, but is listed supplemental material along wh a range of other historil figur’ bgraphi. “Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg .

She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office California. The ntroversy, which stems om the material's mentn of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to polil office California, and allegatns that he was a pedophile.

A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . * gay chan board *

On Wednday, the district voted 3-2 favor of rejectg a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that mentns gay rights activist Harvey Milk, markg the send such ocsn that the district nied the material. Someone (probably someone anti-gay) reports the board for CP to the host, who shuts down pendg vtigatn.

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After months of back-and-forth wh California Gov. Gav Newsom, Temecula Valley Unified School District board members have fally voted to adopt a new state-endorsed social studi curriculum that they had prevly rejected twice for s mentn of gay rights activist Harvey Milk. * gay chan board *

fuck this gay earth. A nservative Riversi County school board that had prevly rejected a social studi curriculum that mentned gay rights activist Harvey Milk reversed urse Friday night and said would go forward wh the stctnal materials that meet state unanimo cisn by the Temecula Valley Unified School District followed a seri of ntent public meetgs and a threat by Gov. 5 ln if did not provi s elementary school stunts wh new state-approved social studi books for the g school what board members scribed as a promise, the district will pull om the curriculum one supplemental lson — a fourth-gra un that discs the gay rights movement — for further review and possible rewrg, acrdg to a vio of Friday night’s meetg.

The board print brand Milk, the state’s first out gay man elected to public office, “a pedophile” and another member claimed the stctnal materials promoted board voted 3-2 May to reject the, who has fashned himself as a progrsive warrr agast red-state polici, wad to the suatn. Jerry Brown 2011, history lsons and textbooks California public schools are required to clu ntributns of gay, lbian and transgenr Amerins.

“I looked through and I did not fd anythg objectnable or anythg to do wh sex or pedophilia or pornography…”The vote was 4-0 wh one board member who opposed the curriculum not member Jennifer Wiersma changed her vote to adopt the curriculum, but acknowledged “ wasn’t my first choice” and voiced ntug ncerns about the prentatn of gay rights.

A nservative Riversi County school board that had rejected a social studi curriculum that mentned sla gay rights activist Harvey Milk reversed urse. * gay chan board *

Gav Newsom over lson plans that mentned the state's first openly gay elected public Temecula Valley Unified School District had prevly voted to reject the curriculum part bee some board members were ncerned the curriculum's supplementary material mentned Harvey Milk, the former San Francis supervisor and gay rights advote who was assassated 1978. They also stcted the district's terim supertennt to review a portn of the curriculum that clus a discsn of gay rights and how same-sex marriage me to be legal California.

California Governor Gav Newsom on Wednday announced that the state would be fg the Temecula Valley Unified School District an ongog battle over a social studi curriculum that volv gay rights activist Harvey Milk. A 3-2 vote saw the board aga reject the material solely based on the mentn of Milk, a gay rights figure who paved the way for LGBTQ+ members today, beg the first openly gay man elected to office California. "Once aga, is clear that you are a homophobe, " the woman said while speakg durg the public ment portn of the meetg.

(KABC) -- The Temecula Valley school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus sla gay rights lear Harvey Milk.

TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California school board has voted to approve a social studi curriculum for elementary stunts, rolvg a dispute wh Gov. Gav Newsom over lson plans that mentned the state's first openly gay elected public official. * gay chan board *

"Unr the headg 'Protts, ' one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg 'Court Cas, ' there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. "She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

California Governor Gav Newsom on Wednday announced that the state would be fg the Temecula Valley Unified School District an ongog battle over a social studi curriculum that volv gay rights activist Harvey Milk. * gay chan board *

Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the creatn procs and makg ments attackg Milk.

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"The meetg me jt days after the board voted for a send time to block social studi curriculum that mentned issue first blew up at a meetg last month, when the school board majory qutned whether Milk, who was the first openly gay man to hold public office the state of California, should be clud supplemental materials when teachg civil rights to 4th gra ncern revolv around reports that Milk, when his 30s, had a relatnship wh a 16-year-old boy.

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data-ttid="timtamp" class="wpds-c-kgabfe wpds-c-kgabfe-ieEDlgV-css"><span data-ttid="display-date" class="wpds-c-iKQyrV">September 25, 2014 at 1:51 p.m. EDT</span></div></div></div></hear></div><article class="grid-article mb-xxl-ns" data-qa="ma"><div data-ttid="le-art" data-qa="le-art" class=""><figure class="overflow-hidn relative hi-for-prt center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-to-ns mr-to-ns grid-mobile-full-bleed"><div style="filter:blur(10px);transn:filter .1s;le-height:0" class="w-100 mw-100 h-to" width="600" height="400"><img style="background-size:ver;max-width:1600px;background-image:url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//; xmlns%3Axlk='http%3A//; viewBox='0 0 1280 853'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' lor-terpolatn-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGssianBlur stdDeviatn='.5'%3E%3C/feGssianBlur%3E%3CfeComponentTransfer%3E%3CfeFuncA type='discrete' tableValu='1 1'%3E%3C/feFuncA%3E%3C/feComponentTransfer%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage filter='url(%23b)' x='0' y='0' height='100%25' 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First the se was blamed for leakg <a href=">the stolen nu photographs of dozens of female celebri</a>. Later vented an unfunny and explible <a href=">“mast” for Ebola</a>, and enuraged wls new iPhone owners to microwave their phon. (That latter mor gaed so much tractn, the Los Angel Police Department felt <a href=">pelled to weigh </a>.)</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class=" mb-md hi-for-prt" data-qa="subscribe-promo"><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div><a class="pt-sm pb-sm flex ems-center bold font-xxxs font-xxs-ns offblack hover-blue-bright jtify-between" href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="text-ratn:none;borr:none"><span class="mr-xs flex ems-center"><span class="ml-xs">Tech is not your iend. We are. Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter.</span></span><svg class="ntent-box" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" xmlns=" style="transn:right .2s;posn:relative;right:4px;fill:#2a2a2a" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>ArrowRight</tle><path d="M7.664 1.25l6 6a1 1 0 010 1.414l-6 6L6.25 13.25 10.499 9H2V7h8.585L6.25 2.664 7.664 1.25z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></a><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Apparently nvced the “nth circle of Hell” was not dog enough to sabotage self, shady viral marketers posg as 4chan ers then <a href=">pretend to hack Emma Watson’s nus</a> and — the ensug Inter-wi phony — mand that 4chan be shut down.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The recent 4chan celebry nu leaks have been an vasn of privacy,” the hoaxsters railed an open letter agast 4chan, “and [are] also clear ditn that the Inter NEEDS to be censored.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">How, exactly, do one anonymo Web se generate such outrage? And how n a seri of wholly anonymo, time-sensive msage boards — msage boards wh an terface straight out of the Geoci age — have such a profound, rangg impact on the Inter at large? More importantly: Who the heck are the people, and don’t they have anythg better to do?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">No worri, bewilred rear. We have answers.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="GGTP4ONLKFEM3BSUKJPLQHPBVY"><div>What is 4chan?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">4chan is a seri of wholly anonymo, anythg-go foms. 4chan, s layout and fundamental operatn, is not terrifilly different om Redd, Somethg Awful, or other large-sle Inter foms. The se is broken up to threads where ers n discs different topics — everythg om civet ffee to sex toys — and <a href=">somethg like 22 ln ers</a> do jt that every month.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A uple thgs make 4chan unual as a fom, however. For one thg, unlike Redd, ers never need to make an acunt or pick a ername — even a psdonymo one. That means participants n say and do virtually anythg they want wh only the most remote threat of acuntabily. It also means you n’t msage other ers or tablish any kd of social relatnship wh them, unls they reveal their inty some way. For a social work, that’s pretty weird. In fact, a number of soclogists have spent time studyg exactly how works.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">To further plite thgs, 4chan threads expire after a certa amount of time — ls time for R-rated boards, more time for G or PG on — which lends a sense of impermanence to the whole operatn and means that ers rarely see the exact same thg. Few posts last more than a few days before they’re leted om 4chan’s servers. Posts are anized reverse-chronologilly — although “anized” maybe overstat . 4chan’s terface is liberately, anachronistilly mimalist, which n make difficult for non-regular ers to accs.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Bottom le: 4chan is a fom — nothg crazy or myster there. It’s jt a fom wh no nam, few l and few nsequenc, which is (a) <a href=">the philosophil anthis</a> to virtually every other mastream social property and (b) means people n (and do!) say jt about anythg they want.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="RV4BXBAU6BCLXFTJA6APEU5KVE"><div>Who 4chan?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Acrdg to the <a href=">se’s own statistics</a>, the vast majory of s ers are young, llege-ted men wh an tert Japane culture, vio gam, ics and technology. Most live English-speakg untri — the Uned Stat, Bra, Canada and Atralia — but the se also se sizable traffic om Germany, Swen and France. In late 2010, a 4chan er nducted a (wholly unscientific) <a href=">survey of other se ers</a>, which found that, among other thgs, most 4chan ers don’t discs the se offle and most ers wouldn’t let their kids jo . The se’s founr urged rears to take the survey wh “a massive gra of salt” — sce the se thriv on anonymy, he poted out, there’s ultimately no way to know who wh any certaty.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="WVPCCJTGFRCB7BWEMPFVN3FCSE"><div>Why is 4chan important/why should I re?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Three reasons: First, 4chan is the origal cubator for a huge number of mem and behavrs that we now nsir central to mastream Inter culture. Send, 4chan is rponsible for some of the largt hoax, cyberbullyg cints and Inter pranks of the past five years. Third, Anonymo got s start on 4chan — and the hacktivist llective is an creasgly important player news events om <a href=">Fergon</a> to the Stbenville rape. In short, the full list of thgs 4chan has given the Inter would be pretty extensive. But here’s a start on the good:</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><ol class="font--article-body font-py gray-darkt mt-0 mr-lg ml-lg mb-md list"><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>LOLCats:</strong> funny <a href=">pictur of ts wh text</a> superimposed on them</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Dty the t:</strong> an abed t Oklahoma whose vio was posted to YouTube; 4chan tracked down the t’s owner and sent his tails to police.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Advice animals:</strong> <a href=">pictur of animals or humans</a> wh stereotypil or archetypal ptns superimposed</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Rage ics:</strong> a genre of simple, le-drawn Web ics — you probably regnize some of s most faiar characters om mem.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Rickrollg:</strong> the practice of <a href=">sendg someone a lk</a> that actually, secretly, lks to the mic vio for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Cholate Ra:</strong> 4chan ers swarmed the mic vio for <a href=">Tay Zonday’s “Cholate Ra,”</a> thereby movg up the YouTube charts and transformg to a verable meme. Several mastream artists have sce vered .</span></li></ol></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">… and the bad:</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><ol class="font--article-body font-py gray-darkt mt-0 mr-lg ml-lg mb-md list"><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Celebgate:</strong> <a href=">the leak of dozens</a> of stolen celebry nu photos, which — while no longer available on 4chan — still exist as downloadable torrents across the Web.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Gamergate:</strong> an ongog movement to expose “rptn” vio game journalism, which was (purportedly!) <a href=">dmmed up by 4chan</a> ers. Gamergate has sce wrecked the liv of several female gamers and mentators and spawned a larger discsn about the way that dtry treats women.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>The cyberbullyg of Jsi Slghter:</strong> one of the earlit <a href=">high-profile cints of cyberbullyg</a>, which 4chan members sent ath threats and lls to an 11-year-old girl who would later make multiple suici attempts.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Google- and poll-bombg:</strong> votg or searchg for the same terms en masse, to eher sabotage an onle vote or make a topic trend artificially. 4chan has succsfully gotten a swastika to trend on Google.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Fake bomb threats:</strong> a vast number of hoaxers have posted mass bomb and shootg threats to 4chan, promptg several arrts and evacuatns.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>#Cutforbieber:</strong> a Twter hashtag that enuraged <a href=">young Beliebers to cut themselv</a> to monstrate their love for the performer.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>#Leakforjlaw:</strong> a siar <a href=">social media prank</a> that enuraged women to post their nu photos support of Jennifer Lawrence.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Biki bridge:</strong> an vented <a href=">bety/fns trend</a> that enuraged women to lose enough weight to create a gap between the bon of their hip and pelvis; the trend, though fake, eventually ught on onle eatg-disorr muni.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Apple Wave:</strong> an alleged “feature” of the iPhone 6, hyped by 4chan ers on Twter, where people n charge their phon by microwavg them. Needls to say, that’s one of many 4chan news hoax.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span><strong>Ebola-chan:</strong> a jokey rtoon “mast” for Ebola that, the hands of some particularly unprcipled 4chan ers, <a href=">beme a hoax</a> directed at vulnerable Wt Ains.</span></li></ol></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The list go on.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="GSQGKVDQZFEM7PWCKWUCVQCQAM"><div>Don’t 4chan have any l?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="width:275px;m-height:358px" class="center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter w-50-ns fl-ns float-left mt-xs mr-lg-mod" width="275" height="325" layout="fixed"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There are <a href=">a few l</a>. Users are banned om vlatg U.S. law, cludg pyright law, and om postg other people’s personal rmatn, impersonatg se admistrators, and g bots on the se. Users n post racist, graphic and other “grotque” material, but only on the board /b/. (More on that later.) 4chan has teams of refere lls “morators” and “janors,” who n lete posts and ban ers who post illegal ntent.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="gift-share-le" data-ttid="gift-share-le" class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-goNocI-placement-Inle foc-highlight"><div data-ttid="gift-share-terstial-trigger" class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-jtSXsT-hasSubsText-false"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg">Share this article</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvK"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCdK-isShown-false">Share</span><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But 4chan is notorly tight-lipped about who morat — and how much. 4chan appears to see that secrecy as part of s ethos. “There is no way for an end er to accurately judge the amount of moratn takg place at any given pot time,” the se <a href=">explas an FAQ</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="WHLFZGBOOVASLN2LYFUXNCF5BA"><div>Is 4chan herently evil?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That don’t mean 4chan is herently evil, or that everythg on the se is somehow praved. Jt like Redd or Hacker News or anythg else, the good and the bad exist. You get msage boards like /b/, which equently traffic gore and other shock porn. But you also get people talkg about how to roast raw ffee beans or e out as gay to their fai.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">4chan’s board topics clu okg, fns, fashn, technology, mic, and math; they also clu several boards dited to weapons, “polilly rrect” discsn, and hardre — often disturbg — porn. Huge swaths of the se are dited to anime, manga and other Japane cultural outputs, a legacy of the se’s creatn 2003. When 4chan’s founr, Christopher (“moot”) Poole, created the se October of that year, he drew largely on the muny one of Somethg Awful’s anime foms. Poole, 15 at the time, is now his mid-20s.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="TDQRCMNHZNFUPDLHJN7CKTFM7E"><div>So whenever we talk about hoax and leaks and other icky 4chan stuff, where do that e om?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">4chan, as of this wrg, has 63 “boards,” or subfoms. Two of those — /b/ and /pol/ — are primarily rponsible for 4chan’s ls-than-stellar reputatn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">/pol/, or “polilly rrect,” ostensibly exists to discs news and polics — but those discsns equently dissolve to racial or misogynistic slurs. Of urse, that’s not so different om, say, The Washgton Post ments sectn. But while The Washgton Post employs people to make sure the n-word and other nasts don’t get around, /pol/ hurls them around equently. This is where we saw the birth of the “Ebola-chan” meme.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As gross as /pol/ n get, however, /b/ is another animal entirely. The board serv as a kd of tch-all/release valve for all the rape porn, self-harm pics, and creepy drawgs of sntily clad children that aren’t allowed other foms. That’s by sign, too: 4chan technilly bans trollg, racism and grotque imagery elsewhere on the se, but perms /b/. Even /b/ isn’t totally awful — a thread posted jt this morng bat good Netflix recs — but ’s still an unfathomable grab-bag of the random, the gross and the downright bizarre.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="ZSUZLSVTJBFRZOQH55FZTBCYTM"><div>How do 4chan -jok morph to major Inter trends?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In a phrase, what happens on 4chan do not stay on 4chan — not when gets big, anyway. In-jok and other benign ephemera tend to filter out anilly, via ers’ other onle works and social media acunts. (Celebgate, as I wrote earlier this month, reached the mastream <a href=">via a jot Redd/4chan er</a> named John Men.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But equently, 4chan is a b more proactive phg s creatns on the mass. When ers orchtrate major hoax or pranks, for stance, they’ll often create fake Twter acunts and hashtags to popularize the story or attract media attentn. They’re also que apt at gamg any platform that surfac ntent based on populary: that clus not only Twter, which highlights “trendg” topics, but also YouTube and Google Trends. Bee certa foms have been so succsful at gettg a group of people to take actn at once, 4chan’s <a href=">been creded</a> for pullg off “some of the hight-profile llective actns the history of the Inter.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="TL6JHKSTZ5CFPBXX6NONIEG6LE"><div>But … why would anybody do that?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Hontly, ’s very difficult to gus 4chan’s motiv, particularly sce no one knows exactly who the se, and exactly what numbers. But generally speakg, based on many hours spent hangg around the se, the people that spread hoax are often for the lulz — the schan, other words. The visceral joy of lghg at someone else’s stupidy/expense. Even a after s lnch, ’s pretty obv that 4chan was found by a teenage boy — and also obv, I spect, that many of s ers still fall that mographic, spe 4chan’s sistence that mors aren’t allowed on the se. (It’s tellg that, when you enter “4chan ers” to Google, one of the first suggted search is “…are losers.”)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But there are plenty of other reasons to e 4chan too, of urse. For other people, 4chan’s radil anonymy also functns as somethg of a safe space, a place to discs terts or cursi that would be taboo anywhere else. (It’s no cince that the <a href=">brony subculture</a> has s very own 4chan board.) The equency of offensive language and slurs — ed so sually, even unmalicly — would seem to suggt ers jt crave a place to shake off any and all social l. In fact, Poole said as much <a href=">an terview wh the New York Tim</a> 2010:</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><blockquote data-ttid="quote" class="wpds-c-BNTaj wpds-c-BNTaj-fDUVQq-showBorr-te wpds-c-BNTaj-iPJLV-css blockquote borr-box black font--article-body"><div data-qa="article-quote" class="wpds-c-PJLV">I get a lot of e-mail msag om people who say thanks for givg them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they n’t say real life wh iends and work lleagu — thgs that they know are wrong, but they still want to say.</div></blockquote></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That said, there’s no doubt that a lot of legimately racist, mysogistic, homophobic, pedophilic and otherwise unsavory people flock to 4chan, too. And those shady characters, mixed wh the pranksters and the radil-anonymy advot, make for a volatile mixture: a place where any kd of mischief is wholly possible.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="ULEHNUFQDNBYXJY2FOGFVCLUFA"><div>So we should shut 4chan down, right?</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wrong. Outsi of <a href=">“Rantic Marketg”</a> — the serial hoaxers/annoyg Inter humans that generated the Emma-Watson-nus fx-sndal this week — very few people want to see 4chan go offle. The se’s founr, Poole, has argued nvcgly that there’s herent value havg, and sheddg, multiple inti onle. And 4chan is really a hotbed of creativy and dialogue, even if much of that creativy and dialogue is stuff you’d maybe rather not see.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That said, 4chan’s moratn — much like Redd’s — leav somethg to be sired, particularly bee ’s so very, blackly opaque. For all we know, Poole himself is the only wizard behd the curta.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But maybe that metaphor isn’t apt; would seem to imply, after all, that somebody’s nng the 4chan show. And when all is said and done, 4chan’s boundls, facels anarchy is s fg characteristic — and the reason ’s bee a kd of Inter bogeyman, equally hated and unknown.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-ipATMk wpds-c-ipATMk-hCiGAB-removeMobileStyl-te"><div class="wpds-c-dhzjXW wpds-c-dhzjXW-iPJLV-css overriStyl"><div id="gift-share-end" data-ttid="gift-share-end" class="PJLV PJLV-idiqKOk-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-iIVoLq-placement-Shortcut foc-highlight"><div class="wpds-c-UazGY" id="gift-share-shortcut" data-ttid="gift-share-shortcut"><svg xmlns=" fill="var(--wpds-lors-primary)" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fVfumU "><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg><div class="PJLV wpds-c-kwcHlj">Share</div></div></button></div></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-iipsdti-css"><div></div></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-iipsdti-css"><div></div></div><sectn class="PJLV PJLV-iipsdti-css dn-ns hi-for-prt" data-ttid="mostRead" subscriptns-sectn="ntent"><div data-ttid="lazy-most-read-parent" class=""><div style="m-height:800px"></div></div></sectn><div class="PJLV PJLV-ickXkbz-css"><div data-qa="newsletter" class="hi-for-prt relative"><div class="dib w-100"><div><div class="flex jtify-center align self-center center transn-all duratn-400 ease--out" data-qa="sc-newsletter-signup" aria-label=""><svg aria-labelledby="react-aria-1-aria" role="img" viewBox="0 0 100 80"><tle id="react-aria-1-aria">Loadg....

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