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What do you know about the 8chan owners? Nanonymous No.10117 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C] >>10168 >>16409
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Who is this guy? I know his name is Jim Watson but I know absolutely nothing about his background before he moved to the Phillipines. He domain hacked 2chan from the nips as a cash grab and bought 8chan from hotwheels. What do you know about him?

Nanonymous No.10152 [D]

He's a freemason with a pig farm. Several years ago he and his son were building something, and posting pictures of them hauling bricks. I forgot what it was, but some people thought he was hiding bodies in the mud.

Nanonymous No.10154 [D]

There's an Encyclopedia Dramatics page about him. How much of it's true, not really sure, but it should provide some idea, I guess.

Nanonymous No.10168 [D] >>10179 >>14143

>>10117
He's an ex military guy who ended up getting into server hosting. Ended up managing websites which catered to Japanese people who wanted uncensored porn. I believe he actually ended up hosting 2ch.

At some point he moved to the Philippines, I think somewhere near Manila, and owns a pig farm.

8chan was in deep shit until he offered to take care of the hosting. I believe 8chan is not profitable, and probably never will be. His motivation for hosting 8chan is not clear, it might be just a personal hobby, or it might be a "fuck you" to the USA. I reckon it's the latter. Shit, who doesn't want to do that these days.

From what I can gather he is not a particularly amazing guy. He has apparently used some dodgy business practices but it's all hearsay.

Nanonymous No.10171 [D]

Oh btw there's some info on 8chan itself: 8ch.net/who.html

Nanonymous No.10172 [D] >>10176 >>14167

It's actually pretty crazy how this dude somehow ended up owning one of the biggest websites in Japan, and the resulting connection between 8chan and 2ch... Illuminati-level shit right there. Shit has gotten so complicated since moot fucked off.

And then 8chan ended up becoming involved in the goddamn Christchurch thing. I was sitting there seeing the breaking news and thinking to myself "holy shit I hope it wasn't a fucking /pol/ack". I still can't believe one of our users went out and killed 50 people. It's scary how one guy can go out and shake the world like that. Reminds me of the assassination that started WW1.

When I started browsing 8chan I just came there for the free speech. I never would've guessed that some spin-off of an imageboard for virgins would lead to this situation.

I just felt like ranting for a bit. My point is that it's so strange that chan culture somehow ended up in the hands of some guy in the Phillipines, and despite shit like Reddit apparently being the future of the internet, some obscure site called 8chan somehow manages to be behind what might become a massive force for political change in the west.

I was just there for the loli.

Nanonymous No.10176 [D] >>10267

>>10172
>I still can't believe one of our users went out and killed 50 people.
>one of our users

Nanonymous No.10179 [D] >>10224 >>10267

>>10168
>I believe 8chan is not profitable, and probably never will be. His motivation for hosting 8chan is not clear, it might be just a personal hobby, or it might be a "fuck you" to the USA.

Or, more likely, he's under paid contract with the CIA. When he deleted the pedo boards with no explanation it proved he didn't give a damn about the founding ideals of the site.

Nanonymous No.10199 [D] >>10200 >>10201 >>10213 >>10215

they're faggots who cant make a real webshit
8cuck before NZ kebab removal:
>enable cookies
>enable referer [sic] header in browser
>copy/paste retarded fucking link into new tab to fill out "daily" captcha and solve it
8cuck after NZ kebab removal:
>enable cookies
>enable referer [sic] header in browser
>copy/paste retarded fucking link into new tab to fill out "daily" captcha and solve it
>open separate page for per-post captcha
>copy ID from page into post box
>fail per-post captcha, which causes the "daily" captcha to expire (because the code is retarded as fuck)
>restart entire fucking process
technology was a mistake

Nanonymous No.10200 [D] >>10201

>>10199
>open separate page for per-post captcha
>copy ID from page into post box
>fail per-post captcha, which causes the "daily" captcha to expire (because the code is retarded as fuck)
>restart entire fucking process
I haven't had to do any of these post-NZ, maybe you just have a shit browser setup.

Nanonymous No.10201 [D][U][F] >>10204
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>>10199
also:
>Tor users cannot post images
and just discovered this right now:
>Tor users cannot delete posts
>>10200
>it doesn't work because your browser is shit [/babyvoice]
no, you have a cucked browser setup. i have JS, cookies, and referer [sic] header disabled, like a white man

Nanonymous No.10204 [D]

>>10201
>Tor users cannot make reports

Nanonymous No.10213 [D]

>>10199
The site is almost unusable at this point.

Nanonymous No.10215 [D][U][F] >>10220 >>10267
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>>10199
Hapa spammer here. Basically how the old system worked is that all Tor users are treated as the same, disregarding the cookie. So solving the captcha on one computer would allow another computer to post.
I took advantage of this fact to make a zero-intervention script which spammed without having to have a human solve captchas.
The old system did not even require cookies. The new system requires cookies and 1 captcha per tor post.

Nanonymous No.10220 [D] >>10223

>>10215
You made me lose any faith I still had in hapas.

Nanonymous No.10223 [D] >>10308

>>10220
>faith I still had in hapas
your faith is irrelevant because you're a cucked wigger piece of shit
you complaining about pigchan spam merely affirms your love for pigchan and pigchan cancers.

Nanonymous No.10224 [D][U][F]
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>>10179
Project MKULTRA never died, it became something new ;)

Many American universities are doing grant research on the human brain, what's the end goal there?

Nanonymous No.10251 [D]

I've seen this mentioned before:
http://endchan5doxvprs5.onion/news/res/8261.html#q12796


Nanonymous No.10267 [D] >>10268 >>10337

>>10176
I'm not sure where you're from, but I'm an 8channer like 90% of the people here.

>>10179
Pedoshit is probably the single most destructive thing a website can have. A lot of ISPs will tolerate all kinds of expression, but will draw the line at children. I'd say he just knew that allowing pedos to post everywhere would eventually destroy the site like Masterchan.

Why would the CIA fund a site like 8chan, which seems to be doing a pretty good job of destabilising things?

>>10215
Damn, never thought I'd see you here. I figured it was some SJW who was butthurt about Christchurch. That's a pretty big vuln too.

Nanonymous No.10268 [D]

>>10267
>Why would the CIA fund a site like 8chan, which seems to be doing a pretty good job of destabilising things?

Datamining and profiling. The pedos had to go because they diverted resources and are not what the spooks are after. They also hurt the antipedo narrative with their friendly, legal, positive fellowship.

Nanonymous No.10308 [D]

>>10223
>you complaining about pigchan spam merely affirms your love for pigchan and pigchan cancers
I never complained about it, superior hapa brain.
Can't you read?
Read what I wrote a second time.

Nanonymous No.10337 [D]

>>10267
The CIA likes to destabilize things, it allows them to swoop in and steer opposition movements. Self-appointed leaders likely have some sort connection, kind of like the whole story of Jim obtaining control over 2/8chan, it reminds me of glowniggers.

Nanonymous No.10339 [D] >>10341

It should also be noted that the value in 8ch, may not be advertising, but instead an army of users that fit a certain profile and can be manipulated because of that known psychological profile. Probably one of the reasons you see data-mining threads like "What's your Myers-Briggs test results?".

/pol/ is somebodies personal army, they just don't know it.

Very similar to how other ideological groups can be useful idiots if an objective can be twisted to overlap with an ideological goal.

Nanonymous No.10341 [D][U][F]
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>>10339
or they are retards on their own who got overrun by dup retards
pic related

Nanonymous No.10342 [D][U][F] >>14298
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this pic

Nanonymous No.14103 [D] >>14105 >>14107
Lmao chan site are so overrated dont know why every autist want to host or hack or steal a chan site only to feel like a god. Get over it. Its just a autistic image and text board lmao

Nanonymous No.14105 [D]
>>14103
Chan sites rake in tons of ad money for the amount required for upkeep. You only need about $15 per month to keep even a relatively large non-4/8 imageboard up. You might not notice this if you have adblocking but almost all imageboards have some form of advertising with them
And there's also the rivalry between jim watkins and hiroshima (look up 2ch chronicles) where they fight over 2ch, and now 8ch and 4chan

Nanonymous No.14107 [D] >>14144
>Pedoshit is probably the single most destructive thing a website can have. A lot of ISPs will tolerate all kinds of expression, but will draw the line at children. I'd say he just knew that allowing pedos to post everywhere would eventually destroy the site like Masterchan.
and yet it got destroyed by the opposite of peods: /pol/niggers
there's no such thing as regulation on the internet no matter how hard ameritrash want to believe. it's down right now because they are too incompetent to host something without 8gag handholding.
>>14103
this but also applies to everything on the internet. muh serious business

Nanonymous No.14143 [D] >>14233
>>10168
>From what I can gather he is not a particularly amazing guy. He has apparently used some dodgy business practices
That's the impression I also have of him.

He seems to follow a pattern of behavior where he makes his business partners dependent on his resources and then obtains/steals their property.

That is said to have happened with Hiroyuki Nishimura, 2ch prior owner. In order to circumvent retarded porn restrictions and anti free-speech laws of Japanese government, the website was physically hosted in US. One day Jim declared that Hiroyuki had not paid for hosting so he took ownership of the website.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel#History:
>On February 19, 2014, 2channel underwent a domain name repossession, with Jim Watkins, an ex-US Army officer and chairman of San Francisco-based N.T. Technologies taking full control over the website, relieving Nishimura of all power, and assuming the role of website administrator. It was later revealed that 2channel was suffering from financial setbacks prior to the takeover.
>...
>In a Q&A session on 4chan shortly after becoming the site's owner, Nishimura claimed that control over 2channel was stolen by Watkins, and that he had filed a lawsuit against Watkins.

With 8chan, the story looks similar. The site owner/creator Fredrick Brennan aka Hotwheels needed a reliable hosting provider since the site had come under attack for its "anything goes"-type content. Jim Watkins kindly offered to help with hosting and shared various other site administration resources from 2channel (like IP-address filter). Then in 2016 Hotwheels "resigned" and Jim with his son Ron took over the site. The "resignation" by Hotwheels doesn't seem to have been entirely voluntary, though, based on how Hotwheels was relentlessly criticizing 8chan administration a few weeks ago. Hotwheels seems to have harbored a lot of ill feelings towards Jim so I take from it that Jim must have fucked him over.

As a final point, it looks like Jim tried to take ownership of Infinity Next source code from a young programmer named Joshua Moon (current owner of Kiwi Farms).
https://medium.com/@ItsJoshProbably/why-8chan-will-not-be-getting-infinity-next-d8116d162c7

Infinity Next was an open source image board software project to be deployed on 8chan. The project was partly crowd funded and had an initial pledge of applying AGPL license to the source code basically guaranteeing that 8chan web-application source code would have been publicly available. After the main development was almost done (performance optimization issues remained), Jim met Josh and said he'll only deploy the software if Josh discards the AGPL license and sells ownership of the source code to him. Jim also promised a lucrative programming job for Josh if he complied. Josh refused, remaining adamant the initial open source license promise must be honored. Had Josh complied, Jim would have stolen the source code and made it proprietary and all future developments on it closed source.

So, yeah, Jim does not exactly come across as an honorable person and it is slightly saddening that he is now one of the last bastions supporting free expression on the Internet. Almost all the others have yielded to blue checkmark mafia.

Nanonymous No.14144 [D][U][F]
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>>14107
>and yet it got destroyed by the opposite of pedos: /pol/niggers
They are mixed bag about that.
>this but also applies to everything on the internet. muh serious business
>muh serious business
applies on literally everything and I'm sick of it. Let's make every single person on the planet to go on trip and world would radically change for better.

Nanonymous No.14167 [D] >>14333
>>10172
>the assassination that started WW1
Look at this goy.

Nanonymous No.14233 [D] >>14249
>>14143
infinty next was shitshow. josh was a fucking retard.

Cat Goddess's Cum Filled Bum No.14245 [D]
Based Jim is the greatest man to ever walk the Earth. The pigs he raises taste like gold. His son Ron is a supreme gentleman with a huge, throbbing yellow gook cock.

Cat Goddess's Cum Filled Bum No.14246 [D]
Pedos are based as fuck. They do the world an incredible service by providing gorgeous, delicious young ladies the sex education they'll need later in life to make their husbands happy.

Haters Gonna Hate.

Nanonymous No.14249 [D]
>>14233
In what sense is he a retard (could you elaborate a bit)?

He was a young programmer (23 at the time) and he may have bitten more than he could chew with Infinity Next, but he did get a version up on Github and he did hold strong when Jim tried to con him out of his creation.

His blog post certainly makes more sense than the people criticizing him.

Nanonymous No.14298 [D][U][F]
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>>10342
That looks like H.L. Mencken

Nanonymous No.14333 [D] >>14337
>>14167
He's not wrong. A "serbian"(probably a jew) killed the archduke of austria Hungary. Which kicked off world war 1. Which was too completely destroy monarchy. That is what world war 1 was about. Monarchy needed to be destroyed because demoncracy is a system where if you control the populace you control the nations. Can't really do that with a monarch in the way. Hence why jews were kicked out so often. Basically demoncracy is a sham and supporting it is the equivalent to supporting world jewry. "Freedom" is the biggest lie the world was ever made to believe.

Nanonymous No.14337 [D] >>14339 >>14341
>>14333
The jews instigated the world wars to kill off as many strong Whites as possible. Then they killed and raped millions more after the war through their red golems, while claiming the victim.

Even in modern times, we have phony jew wars like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which have left hundreds of thousands of mostly White men brain-damaged, which leads to problems coping at home, which leads to increased (((mental health))), which leads to more fighting-age Whites disarmed of firearms and addicted to pharmajewticals.

stoner No.14339 [D]
>>14337
>wars are jew
Since when are nazis militant hippies?

Nanonymous No.14341 [D] >>14501
>>14337
The jews goal is to destroy christianity. To do that they must destroy the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Since they hate law and are a lawless people and thus they hate Yahweh. I'll let you connect the dots.

Nanonymous No.14501 [D]
>>14341
>implying that cucktianity is tradition of Europe, and kikes want to destroy it

Nanonymous No.16338 [D]
Were there any transcripts released from his testimony at the US Gov?

Nanonymous No.16357 [D]
the entire atheist industry is them attacking christianity. it only started attacking islam in the 00s for middle eastern wars. the third abrahamic pillar always somehow escapes criticism

Nanonymous No.16409 [D]
>>10117
>>I know his name is Jim Watson but I know absolutely nothing about his background before he moved to the Phillipines.

The reason going to the Phillipines: to fuck lolis like Peter Scully!