Is 4chan legal?

[ManBearPig]

heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

 

[Legendary]

Only newfags think you can get caught for downloading

 

[TridenT]

It's legal, but a lot of the content isn't... Such as CP!

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: TridenT
It's legal, but a lot of the content isn't... Such as CP!

Clown porn rocks :^D

 

[Jinru]

I'm guilty of checking out /s/ from time to time... I don't go to the other sections very often.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: coldmeat

Originally posted by: nkgreen
/b has the lulz occasionally.

What's /b?

/b/ is the random section of the site
anything gets posted there... from pictures of pencil erasers to child porn to gruesome rotten.com style photos

*EDIT* I first heard about the site when Bill O'Reily called 4chan a haven for criminals and pedophiles and called for it to be shut down. Naturally I wanted to see what the fuss was about... there's some pretty nasty stuff posted there. While I find it disgusting, there are some valid sections that are not disgusting and we live in the USA where censorship is (fortunately) unpopular so I doubt it'll be shut down any time soon. I doubt it's even hosted on American soil... but we're not China... no national proxy to filter what reaches our delicate eyes.

 

[ManBearPig]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

so yes or no? and further, how the fuck are they allowed to have child porn? thats sick.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Kazaam

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

so yes or no? and further, how the fuck are they allowed to have child porn? thats sick.

People posting child porn are breaking the law. The owners of the 4chan site are not breaking the law as they claim they make every effort to ensure illegal content is removed.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Kazaam

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

so yes or no? and further, how the fuck are they allowed to have child porn? thats sick.

People posting child porn are breaking the law. The owners of the 4chan site are not breaking the law as they claim they make every effort to ensure illegal content is removed.

So yeah, there is a lot of illegal content on there. But you can't remove the entire site because the users post illegal content.

Lets say, somebody posts child porn on anandtech. It stays up for 10 minutes. Should be ATOT be shut down?

How often does do users need to post illegal content before a site gets shutdown? Its a very gray area.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Kazaam

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

so yes or no? and further, how the fuck are they allowed to have child porn? thats sick.

People posting child porn are breaking the law. The owners of the 4chan site are not breaking the law as they claim they make every effort to ensure illegal content is removed.

So yeah, there is a lot of illegal content on there. But you can't remove the entire site because the users post illegal content.

Lets say, somebody posts child porn on anandtech. It stays up for 10 minutes. Should be ATOT be shut down?

How often does do users need to post illegal content before a site gets shutdown? Its a very gray area.

Right. The merits of such a site are questionable. Again though, we live in the USA where free speech is not taken away from everyone simply because there's a minority that abuse it.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

I'm not so sure, judging by the things that I saw there the one time that I was there, it didn't seem all that legit.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Scholzpdx
I'm not so sure, judging by the things that I saw there the one time that I was there, it didn't seem all that legit.

It's been debated for years. Last I checked it's still up so apparently sufficient proof that the site itself is breaking the law hasn't been found.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

CP, when it does get posted, gets taken down fast. Really, really fast. Hit F5, holy crap CP, hit F5 again, boom! Gone.

 

[manowar821]

Kazaam, you're a giant troll.

 

[rhino56]

What is legal does not equal what is moral.

 

[Fayd]

anime and manga, anime wallpapers, high res, and oragami and crafts are the sections i visit.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: PottedMeat

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
waaaay too many pics of guys grabbing their dicks on there. There are some good images, but most of it....


IT CANNOT BE UNSEEN!!!!

lol thats the point, lure you in with chicks, scar you with chicks with dicks eating shit for lulz.

or the occasional mt. dew fucking a sandwich.

LOL! Sig'ed!

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Kazaam

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

so yes or no? and further, how the fuck are they allowed to have child porn? thats sick.

what is the jailbait section?

They are not allowed to have child porn. The mods there will pull those threads and ban that user.

There are rules...just not the type that protects crybabies.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
CP, when it does get posted, gets taken down fast. Really, really fast. Hit F5, holy crap CP, hit F5 again, boom! Gone.

So is this your kiddie porn downloading technique? press F5 a lot and grab what you can?

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop

Originally posted by: thescreensavers

Originally posted by: krylon

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop
isnt it a virus pool? im scared to go there cuz it might wreck my compy.

newfag

Fixed

wow. that was a lil excessive.
I think 'noob' got the point across.

don't go to 4chan if you thought that was excessive. just a friendly tip.

 

[ManBearPig]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Kazaam

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

so yes or no? and further, how the fuck are they allowed to have child porn? thats sick.

what is the jailbait section?

They are not allowed to have child porn. The mods there will pull those threads and ban that user.

There are rules...just not the type that protects crybabies.

it was something like /b/ jailbait or something like that. so i guess if it was still up they deemed the chicks in those images to be 18+?

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop

Originally posted by: thescreensavers

Originally posted by: krylon

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop
isnt it a virus pool? im scared to go there cuz it might wreck my compy.

newfag

Fixed

wow. that was a lil excessive.
I think 'noob' got the point across.

don't go to 4chan if you thought that was excessive. just a friendly tip.

serious

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Kazaam

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Kazaam

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres what i dont understand...they have a jailbait board or whatever you call it, but there are nude pictures. either a, these are not really jailbait, or b, they are which would mean its illegal, right?

so yes or no? and further, how the fuck are they allowed to have child porn? thats sick.

what is the jailbait section?

They are not allowed to have child porn. The mods there will pull those threads and ban that user.

There are rules...just not the type that protects crybabies.

it was something like /b/ jailbait or something like that. so i guess if it was still up they deemed the chicks in those images to be 18+?

there is just /b/...no /b/ jailbait.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Lots of Lulz at times.

Too often though I'm so discouraged from the amount of cocks and other gay or disturbing shit that I just hit x on the browser.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop

Originally posted by: thescreensavers

Originally posted by: krylon

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop
isnt it a virus pool? im scared to go there cuz it might wreck my compy.

newfag

Fixed

wow. that was a lil excessive.
I think 'noob' got the point across.

no, it is what everyone says there

if you are from europe, you are called "Eruofag" If you are from america, you care called "Amerifag", etc etc