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Expect Reddit and 4Chan to spend weeks tracking the wrong transactions and the finally identifying a poor sap whose only fault was once buying coins from mtgox years ago. Which is not much different than being audited by the irs...


At least Reddit and 4Chan can't haul you off to prison nor freeze your bank accounts.


I think I'd rather be hauled off to prison than be the target of such ire.


Lol.. you've clearly never been to jail, much less prison.


I'm a middle class male.

If 4chan gets pissed off at me, my available recourse involves scouring all data traces I've made across the Internet and then hoping I did it fast enough before the pain train begins. At best, I could post some kind of apology or concession and pray they lose interest.

If the government wanted to put me in jail, my available recourse starts with a reasonably well documented legal system interested in fairly representing and judging me and extends all the way to, well... asking 4chan for help.

Maybe if I were black or female or gay, I'd prefer 4chan's treatment, but only maybe.


I'd say that the best recourse to a 4chan character assassination is to simply stop using the reddit/facebook/4chan for a week or two.


I think you're imagining that 4chan would stop with my internet presence. That's not historically true.


You've clearly never been on the receiving end of 4Chan.




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