12-Year Reddit veteran, sadly acknowledging the site won't return to the way it was 7+ years ago

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[–]teelo 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The NZ government ordered all their ISPs to block connections to 4chan and 4channel, even days after 4chan had already removed all the videos of it, and even though it was never even shared on 4channel. It took a month before I could browse 4chan again without using a foreign DNS.

[–]SaidOverRed 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The truth is, that they wanted to squash our right to see that the shooter specifically said he was doing it to bring about a gun ban. But you can't let people know that they are giving him exactly what he wants. So they suppress it and move to let no catastrophe go to waste, as it were.