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Adree

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,072


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nike-coupon-color/

In a potentially dangerous twist, the QR code on the second coupon reveals a threatening message when scanned with a QR reader: "This is a ROBBERY, Move slowly and put all the LARGE bills in the shoe box OR everyone DIES."

In April 2018, 4Chan users concocted a similar fake Starbucks coupon for a free drink for customers "of African-American heritage." The fake coupon emerged after a controversy in which Starbucks apologized when two black men were arrested while waiting in a Starbucks coffee shop in Philadelphia. When scanned, the QR code in the Starbuck fake coupon displayed the word "nigger."

Fucking cowards.
 

Serene

Community Resettler
Member
Oct 25, 2017
52,485
"White suprmacist internet board concocts plan to get black people killed"

I'm shocked
 

Squarehard

Member
Oct 27, 2017
25,821
can we toss all these radical white incel terrorist boys into the sun yet
SimpsonsOperationExodus.png
 

Temascos

Member
Oct 27, 2017
12,490
I'm not one for internet censorship but 4Chan is a dangerous site, it needs to be shut down.
 

less

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,831
Monstrous behavior from a site with plenty of deplorable people.
 

Stryder

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,530
US
Oh the same forum board that made up the White Power hand sign that's just an okay sign that everyone believed and flipped the fuck out over?

Yeah not surprised. Fuck those people.
 

atomsk eater

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,827
By leaving them be you just have easy centralized places for more and more terrible people congregating and concocting worse and worse schemes to harass, injure, and get people killed. Closing down these platforms is the only way.
 

collige

Member
Oct 31, 2017
12,772
I really wish moot deleted /pol/ again before he left because it's very clear that Hiroyuki doesn't give a fuck.
 

Sou Da

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
16,738
I really wish moot deleted /pol/ again before he left because it's very clear that Hiroyuki doesn't give a fuck.
I'm really waiting for the other shoe to drop with hiro, eventually he's going to get tired of trying to be nice with his monetization efforts. VIP can't bring in that much.
 

Gaia Lanzer

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,669
can we toss all these radical white incel terrorist boys into the sun yet
Something something... gotta be nice to all human beings, even the shitty ones... something something... so what if they literally want to wipe us off the face of the Earth and wouldn't care one bit while they do so, we gotta talk to them and try to understand them...
 

Damaniel

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
6,534
Portland, OR
I never thought I'd suggest this, but I think we're at the point where internet anonymity needs to go away. People responsible for things like this need to be tracked down and thrown in jail, which is hard to do when they hide themselves behind VPNs and proxies.

At a minimum, all the various chans need to be shut down.
 

TheFireman

Banned
Dec 22, 2017
3,918
I mean they could just shut down the specific boards causing issues. It's like calling to shut down reddit because of the_Donald. Either way they'd just find another Avenue like IRC.

IMO 4chan's what'll happen to Reddit if they don't shut down the_Donald soon. /pol/ has just infested the place, to the point where no normal adult should want to go on any of the boards. If you shut down /pol/ now, it wouldn't do shit. The infection's spread too far across the site.
 

Bobson Dugnutt

Self Requested Ban
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
6,052
I'm wondering how easy it isfor the feds to find the orginators and some of the early disseminators of the shit, what with the nature of how 4chan operates and how they might not even be in the country and that.

The only saving grace is that most of these peter out.

Imagine being the person who gets the imageboard gig. you'd need eyebleach all of the time. vile dickheads