Operation payback was a coordinated, decentralized group of attacks on highprofile opponents of internet piracy by internet activists using the anonymous moniker. Julian assange, an australian internet activist, is generally described as. The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of apples cloud services suite icloud, or a security issue. This is a list of scandals or controversies whose names include a gate suffix, by analogy with the watergate scandal, as well as other incidents to which the suffix has often facetiously been applied. The increse in subscibers on youtube to anonymous videos. The theory began with an october 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by someone using the name q, a presumably american individual, but probably later a group of people, claiming to have access to. This list also includes controversies that are widely referred to with a gate suffix, but may be referred to by another more common name such as the new orleans saints bounty scandal. Pushthenet is an imageboard with a philosophy against typical imageboard culture activities such as hacking, raiding, and other gray area elements of imageboard culture. He lost his plea for an injunction, however, and failed to receive letters from the court. This disjoined nature of the backup formats makes it difficult to transport thread dumps from one supplier to another, and even more difficult. This is a partial list of social and cultural phenomena specific to the internet, also known as internet memes, such as popular themes, catchphrases, images, viral videos, and jokes. Launched by christopher moot poole in october 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime and manga to video games, music, literature, fitness, politics, and sports, among others.
When such fads and sensations occur online, they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth the below partial list focuses more on internet. In 2010, several bollywood companies hired aiplex software to launch ddos attacks on websites that did not respond to takedown notices. The leaks gained significant traction the following month, when source code for nintendos consoles, such as the wii, appeared online. They would then copy their post number, go to other threads and write fake replies within the other threads. An imageboard is a type of internet forum that revolves around the posting of images, often alongside related text and discussion. These usergenerated cartoons typically follow the lives of ballshaped creatures representing different countries also known as countryballs and international. The maximum resolution of a webcam is also lower than most handheld video cameras, as higher resolutions would be reduced during transmission. Operation payback started as retaliation to distributed denial of service ddos attacks on torrent sites. In internet slang, a troll is a person who starts flame wars or upsets people on the internet by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or offtopic messages in an online community such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional. Within a few hours, the tea party posted a message saying anonymous. This imageboard is based primarily upon the posting of pictures generally related to a wide variety of topics, from anime and popular culture to politics and sports and their discussion. Polandball, also known as countryballs, refers to usergenerated visual art, typically manifesting as online comics, where countries are personified as typically spherical personas decorated with their countrys flag, interacting in often broken english with the exception of countryballs that speak english natively, usually with regional andor national variations e.
Some examples of emoji are, and emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals. Ive been following it since it began, and 4chan is only a small portion of whats going on here. Individuals appearing in public as anonymous, wearing guy fawkes masks motto we are anonymous formation c. As a result, turner sued 4chan, ebaums world, 7chan, and other websites for infringement. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. Project chanology was formulated by users of the englishspeaking imageboards and 4chan, the associated wiki, and several internet relay chat channels, all part of a group collectively known as anonymous, on january 16, 2008 after the church of scientology issued a violation claim against youtube for hosting. The project was started in response to the church of scientologys attempts to remove material from a highly publicized interview with scientologist tom cruise from the internet in january 2008. Top ten most dangerous social media apps thetoptens. Unless, of course, someone can find reliable published sources referring. Het uiteindelijke resultaat was dat green stopte met zijn radiouitzendingen.
The original plan was to attack aiplex software directly, but upon finding some hours before the planned ddos that another individual had taken. Its website, initiated in 2006 in iceland by the organisation sunshine press, claimed in 2016 to have released online 10 million documents in its first 10 years. We appreciate your resources and admire your tactics. In january 2017, users of the imageboard website 8chan leaked the identities of several of its key contributors, including peinovich, and revealed that his wife was of jewish ancestry. A rash of postings that may be related to mass shootings has put a spotlight. A textboard is a simple kind of internet forum that does not require registration. Hopefully soon some expert will explain a the imageboard software and some moderators are linked to chanology, but 4chan itself doesnt have anything to do with content anymore, the ed staff still does or putting together conventions, activist websites, etc and b the anon community has its own unwritten law about memes, raiding, trolling. Registration is not possible, and users generally post anonymously, with threads receiving recent replies being bumped. It includes content relating to all aspects of social. Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks, and backlinks. Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting, is the act of blocking or partially blocking a user or their content from an online community so that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned. Project chanology also called operation chanology was a protest movement against the practices of the church of scientology by members of anonymous, a leaderless internetbased group.
Timeline of events associated with anonymous wikipedia. View of user investment and behavior policing on 4chan first. For instance, shadow banned comments posted to a blog or media site will not be visible to other persons accessing that site from their computers. Mail account of sarah palin was hacked by a 4chan user. On february 4, 2010, verizon wireless blocked 4chan, an english language imageboard from being accessed by its customers. As video streaming over the internet requires a lot of bandwidth, such streams usually use compressed formats. But i cannot see how any aspect of the website is an actual social network service, so it shouldnt be included in this list. It is iso date formatting that is supported by the mediawiki software. It eventually became one of the most prominent figures in todays video game industry, being the worlds largest video game company by revenue. If you were to ask the avereage veteran anon what he thinks about 4chan, you normally get a reply that raged from average disgust to full blown hatred.
In july 2010, there was a reaction to the use of one of anonymous slogans by the oregon tea party. List of social networking websitesarchive 6 wikipedia. Launched by christopher moot poole in october 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a. A webcam is a video camera that feeds or streams an image or video in real time to or through a computer to a computer network, such as the internet. Initially conceived as a website to track board statistics, bstats has since eschewed such a goal and is now an archive for some 4chan boards.
Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Anonymous supplied protesters, through tunisian blogger slim amamou, with anonymising software such as tor. The story of the hacktivists is a 2012 documentary film about the workings and beliefs of the selfdescribed hacktivist collective, anonymous. A collection of almost 500 private pictures of various celebrities notably jennifer lawrence, kate upton, kirsten dunst, and jessica brown findlay, many containing nudity, were leaked via icloud and posted on the imageboard 4chan, and later disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as imgur and reddit. Tumblr tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by david karp in 2007, and owned by oath inc welcome to tumblr. Plain warc files, fuuka database dumps, and most tools output their own unique format. Its not like the 4chan party van has any need to shut it down. In april 2020, hackers began leaking a massive trove of data stolen from japanese video game developer and publisher nintendo online via the anonymous imageboard website 4chan. Anonymous an emblem that is commonly associated with anonymous. Two revisions of a wikipedia article shows a troll vandalizing an article on wikipedia. Through his work, peinovich ridicules african americans, jews, and other ethnic minorities, advocates racial discrimination, and promotes.
The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of apple. Rife with extremist rhetoric, racism and misogyny, these internet subcultures have a lingo all their own. The term was coined by richard stallman, to contrast the maliciousness of a criminal hacker versus the spirit of playfulness and exploration in hacker culture, or the ethos of the white hat hacker who performs hacking duties to identify places to repair or. Blogosphere the collective community of all blogs and blog authors, particularly notable and widely read blogs, is known as the blogosphere. The meme is manifested in a large number of online comics, where countries are presented as spherical personas that interact in often broken english, poking fun at national stereotypes and.
The site was created as a counterpart to the japanese imageboard futaba channel, also known as 2chan, and the first boards were created for posting images and discussion related to anime. Its scope goes far beyond one tiny internet community. A white hat hacker breaks security for nonmalicious reasons, either to test their own security system, perform penetration tests, or vulnerability assessments for a client or while working for a security company which makes security software. A parents guide to the secret language of internet extremists cbs. In particular, pol, the politically incorrect board, has been a central figure in the outlandish 2016 us election season, as it has often been linked. In a retaliation of ideas, many other imageboards such as 7chan and 711chan have attacked in the form of spam floods and hacking in attempts to get rid of the imageboard stating that pushthenet should not exist.
The duckroll is an internet meme where one person posts a new thread on an imageboard, such as 4chan or 7chan, with no text, and a picture of a wooden duck. A black hat hacker is a hacker who violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain moore, 2005. Slang that first appears on the internet is often adopted to become current in everyday life. Imageboard thread archives come in a multitude of different formats. While the group waged its war online, largescale professional strikes by tunisias professional class of lawyers and teachers were also occurring, and this culminated in the fleeing of president ben ali on january 14, 2011. In this paper i explore the posting habits of anonymous users of the sports sp board of the american imageboard 4chan. Imageboard sites 4chan, 8chan announce new ownership. Fredrick brennan born 1994 is an american software developer with brittle bone disease who founded the imageboard website 8chan. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, citation needed. It is thus my conclusion that you sir, are a moron. Webcams are typically small cameras that sit on a desk, attach to a users monitor, or are built into the hardware. Many discussions ive watched are on very low level, mostly namecalling intead of actual arguments. Michael isaac peinovich born 1977, commonly known by his pseudonym mike enoch, is an american neonazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, blogger and podcast host.
Its okay to be white or its ok to be white iotbw is a slogan based on a poster campaign organized on the american imageboard 4chans board pol in 2017. A pol user described it as a proof of concept that what they called a harmless message would cause a media backlash. Textboards, like imageboards, were invented in japan, but they remain relatively unknown outside it, in contrast to imageboards such as 4chan. Webcams can be used during a video chat session involving two or more people, with conversations that include live audio and video. It should be no surprise that imageboard websites like 4chan, 8chan, and 2channelwhich all host anonymous, provocative content from. Sfw alexa rank 1032 global, may 2020 commercial yes registration none available except for staff launched october 1, 2003. The hacker, known as rubico, claimed he had read palins personal emails because he was looking for something that would derail her campaign. He founded 8chan as a free speech friendly 4chan alternative in 20, defended its use by advocates of gamergate in 2014, and cut ties with it in 2016 after having a dispute with nt technologys owner jim watkins, current proprietor of 8chan. If you havent heard of 4chan, an enormous image board filed with creative, candid and often naughty things, youve probably heard of the.
How 4chans chris poole runs his web giant on a shoestring. The history of nintendo traces back to 1889, when it was founded to produce handmade hanafuda. The pictorial chart example the increse in subscibers on youtube to anonymous videos was created using the conceptdraw pro diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the picture graphs solution from the graphs and charts area of conceptdraw solution park. Unlike most imageboard sites, 4chan does have a hugely popular forum at b that has been used to organize various social events and activities.
Piracy activists then created operation payback in september 2010 in retaliation. The term encompasses vigilantism against alleged scams, crimes, and noninternet related behavior. It has been described as japans most popular online community, with around ten million users accessing it each day, with a level of influence in japanese society described as comparable to that of traditional mass media such as television. The party s facebook page was flooded with image macro and flames. It was termed netilantism or digilantism in the wake of the boston. It was originally featured in the multipane comic series that became popular in int international board on krautchan, a germanlanguage imageboard community similar to 4chan. The point is, the website says that the website was born on 4chan. According to radio host hal turner, in december 2006 and january 2007 individuals who identified themselves as anonymous took turners website offline, costing him thousands of dollars in bandwidth bills. Sign up python program to download pictures from multiple imageboard threads like 4chan, 420chan or 7chan. The man without a head represents anonymity and leaderless organization. Shortly after midnight on september 16, 2008, the private yahoo. Webcam software enables users to record a video or stream the video on the internet. The term is generally synonymous with ethical hacker, and the eccouncil, among others, have developed certifications, courseware, classes, and online. In internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or offtopic messages in an online community such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the.
Polandball a usergenerated internet meme which originated on the int board of german imageboard in the latter half of 2009. The requirement to use real identity doesnt help at all, its like everyone gets some kind of internet rage. On august 31, 2014, a collection of almost 500 private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, and with many containing nudity, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and later disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as imgur and reddit. Chinese internet slang is informal chinese language coined to express ideas on the chinese internet in response to events, the influence of the mass media and foreign culture, and the desires of users to simplify and update the chinese language. Internet vigilantism is the act of carrying out vigilante activities through the internet the communication network or its service providers or carried out using applications world wide web, email that depend on the internet. A blog a truncation of weblog is a discussion or informational website published on the world wide web consisting of discrete, often informal diarystyle text entries posts. A few days later, on february 7, 2010, verizon wireless confirmed that 4chan had been explicitly blocked, offering no explanation. Cloudflares services sit between a websites visitor and the cloudflare users hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites. Technology 2channel created by fredrick brennan url alexa rank 3,832 global, june 2019 1,208 united states, march 2019 commercial yes registration optional launched october 22, 20. He founded the altright media network the right stuff and podcast the daily shoah.
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