[ephe] clothed teens are legal under US law- but only if they do not fail the DOST test.

[nmmodels] young models and jailbait are legal under US law. blame the parents putting their kids into young beauty pageants, not pedophiles. write your representative to make them illegal.

cuteboys is a board for transgirls, gay guys, and crossdressers, along with others that don't fit the binary. you're not some homophobe / transphobe, are you? these people are consenting adults.

if you seriously think child porn could exist in the open on the Internet in 2015, you are delusional. the FBI regularly arrests people, and takes down people for hosting CP.

your argument literally only is supported by feels, not reals. everything that you have linked is legal under US law.

This is not "proof" of him knowingly hosting child pornography. Sites get accused of such things all the time and I personally believe there is a group of people who intentionally orchestrated this fiasco.

I visited the 8chan links you posted and didn't see any child pornography. It seems to me like you're trying a little too hard to paint this guy as some kind of pedofile. I don't completely agree with the types of things being posted, but I didn't see anything illegal.

Of course a site that allows anyone to create their own board is going to have some politically incorrect boards.

Reddit has had similar problems and you can still find sub reddits for the same things there.

I suppose you're against free speech completely then?

For someone who claims to be anti-child porn you sure did find those links fast, almost like you had them bookmarked..

/cuteboys/ in particular is a board for effeminate gay men, that does not allow underaged posters or pictures thereof. Just goes to show how zodiakzz hasn't bothered to actually visit or understand the site he's crusading against.

Seeing as zodiakzz seems to be completely against free speech I wouldn't be surprised if he/she equates homosexuality with pedophilia. It seems to always be the people who crusade against pedofiles who end up being the child abusers.

(see how easy it is to make unfounded assumptions about people?)

I see nothing in zodiakzz's comments which suggests that they are 'completely against free speech,' and your personal attacks are completely out of line and against the culture and terms of Hacker News.

It's all well and good to dispute their sources, but at least they brought sources to dispute.

zodiakzz is the one who engaged in personal attacks against the founder of 8chan to begin with. I'm simply giving him a taste of his own medicine.

My post highlights how easy it is to make unfounded assumptions about people on the internet.

Thanks for helping me prove my point.

Edit: oh and btw, zodiakzz did post a link to forum specifically for gay men as "proof" of 8chan hosting pedophilic content, so it's not much of a stretch to believe he lumps homosexuals in the same group as pedophiles.

Proving you're willing to stoop to their level doesn't prove them wrong, though. All it does it get a potentially interesting thread flagged into oblivion.

I was not trying to "prove them wrong", just highlight the absurdity. I guess I should have made it more clear in my original post. I'm sorry. I let my "smart ass" side get the best of me.

zxcvcxz could have been a bit more civil about it, but "You seem rather high on the moral horse for someone hosting child/underage porn." is a kind of personal attack as well. You're right about "stooping to their level," though; it would have been better if zxcvcz had made their intent clear with an addition like "see how easy it is to make uncharitable assumptions about people?" in the original post.

And while zodiakzz may not have made any explicit statements about wanting to enforce limits on freedom of speech, it's a fairly safe assumption to make of the kind of people that feel the need to follow Fredrick around all over the internet, posting uninformed slander, reporting him to payment and crowdfunding services, and/or (topically) using botnets to DDoS his site. Hint: They don't care about similar or worse content being hosted on other user generated content sites, it's all about getting back at him for providing hosting to maligned groups like GamerGate, and killing intelligent discussion or attempts at reconciliation before they can happen by derailing threads.