Right. The really early oughts, when trolling was still a real thing, were so radically different that it’s hard to explain to people these days

Hell way back in the day, 4chan was one of my go-to websites, before the joking and trolling on /b/ really wasn’t joking and trolling any more.

It’s pretty standard 4chan-NEET fare, for anyone who is wondering. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, trad wives, and quasi-pro-nazi shit.

Not worth your time to check out. Small community of sad nerds.

IDDQD is a cheat for the original Doom, as a random fun-fact. God mode, iirc.

Capital I and lowercase l look alike.

It’s a play on that joke.

I’ve already been called a bot, twice, for what I thought were non-controversial, if unpopular, opinions.

I’d prefer not to be on the receiving end of a witch hunt, which I’m afraid a dedicated community may trend toward.

Yeah that must be it.

If China wants to see how much of my TikTok is split between chubby goth girls and Taylor swift, they are more than welcome to that. If they want to know I mostly browse TikTok on my toilet, in the evening, they are more than welcome to that too.

Not exactly a national security issue.

I don’t see how data collection is a privacy and not secrecy issue by his definition.

I don’t think there’s a good reason to be worried about this aspect of my “privacy,” and I think the people who care are borderline chemtrail-level mistaken about how this data is used.

I am pro data collection, as a whole.

This site is an aggregator. I want to use it to aggregate content I want to see.

It’s trivially easy for you to not be exposed to things you don’t want to see here, so I’m not really understanding the issue