![]() ![]() The original aim for 4chan - as a slightly risque forum for teenagers - soon turned into an internet cesspool as users exploited it to spread the most vile material. In 2009, Poole was voted the world’s most influential person by Time magazine although 4chan users reportedly rigged the poll. He wanted to offer a forum for people to put whatever they wanted online with no rules and no fear of prosecution. Yet it was set up by a sweet-faced 15-year-old schoolboy, Christopher Poole, in his New York bedroom in 2003. ![]() The site is used principally by young men, and its guarantee of anonymity (users don’t have to register before posting messages) has seen it described as ‘the ninth circle of Hell’.Ĥchan recently hit the headlines when someone calling himself ‘OriginalGuy’ posted explicit pictures of Jennifer Lawrence and other stars on the notoriously sordid but influential internet ‘image board’. ![]()
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