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The Man Trying to Resurrect 8chan (Starring 8chan's Founder)

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Is Something Awkward or Too Tough?

Christopher Poole thought that there's something awful mods or too strict, something starts 4chan. And I think Christopher Poole is too strict, so I start 8chan. There's a lot of that actually later in this story too. You have to say, okay, well you can't be a Nazi, we're not going to have that here. So it's kind of like he opened the door to that. The thing that Christopher Pool changed is that okay, he created a few boards, you know, B in particular, but then later also N and then the pool board where you could be a racist.

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