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Justin Ling🆒️ (justinling@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:37:22 JST Justin Ling🆒️

Since last year, I've been obsessed with teasing apart who really owns — and finances — 4chan.
Well, I finally cracked it. https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/
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  Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.
- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:41:40 JST Aral Balkan
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  @justinling Excellent piece. Thank you.
  PS. Pleasantly surprised to see Wired publishing actual journalism. I thought they only published surveillance capitalism press releases.
  PPS. https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110108260853493517
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    This: “The fact that 4chan became both more hateful and more prominent after 2015 is a feature, not a bug … It was all business.” https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/ Just reminded me of this: “International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691 #4chan #ibm #holocaust #business

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