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4chan Message Board Sold to Founder of 2Channel, a Japanese Web Culture Pioneer
If the Internet is the Wild West, you could call 4chan “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” 4chan, an anonymous message board founded by Christopher Poole in 2003, has been home to a veritable smorgasbord of everything the web has to offer. With posts on the site lasting only a matter of days or even hours before they are deleted, the message board has been described as the collective id of the Internet, home to hardcore pornography, hardcore cooking tips and everything in between.
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It's worth noting that the new owner of the site did a lot of questionable things while he was still owner of 2chan, including selling user data to companies.