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One of the problems with stuff like 4chan is that there seems to be this idea of "this is the internet and there is complete freedom here." The problem is that some people decided "hey cool that includes the freedom to be an enormous rear end in a top hat." If you don't police a community then the rules become meaningless; people that can't follow, or don't want to follow, the rules elsewhere always find somewhere to go. 4chan started attracting the worst people who cried "no you can't silence me this is a free space." Awful people wanted a place where they could be awful. Over time people that said "no this is awful" migrated elsewhere so you have this community that is being increasingly terrible. With no policing the terrible side of it became a cancer. The worst parts of the community alienate the rest. In some was Anonymous grew out of it and became the visible representation of the internet's subconscious. One of the very interesting things that the totally anonymous, rules-free environment did was let everyone sort of vomit their innermost thoughts and it turns out that what we expected was true all along; humans kind of suck. The biggest difference between 4chan and other communities is that 4chan revels in being disgusting.
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