What's 4Chan and Why It's So Problematic
Incels and losers converge around online echo chambers
Months ago: No, 4Chan is Not Fighting for You by Lawyering Up Against Ofcom (UK)
4Chan and various derivatives of it (there are many overlap, even the legal team) have often been held accountable - at least in the media - for mass murders. The forum (or "site") attracts tech-savvy bigots and vandals; they radicalise each other and gang up against perceived "enemies"; they 'recruit' more like them or turn ordinary young people - typically misguided but ambitious/hungry for a sense of purpose - into the same mindset, sort of like prisons as incubators for gang/drug cartel behaviour in South/Central America or Islam in many parts of Europe.
4Chan is somewhat of a radical cell that radicalises people and encourages if not rewards really malicious behaviour. That our government is attempting to limit/restrict access to sites like 4Chan neither surprises me nor pleases me because there are unintended consequences. Today they say 4Chan, tomorrow they can broaden the web (or brush) to net some more sites that are less tasteless or a mixture of acceptable and bad (until the "bad" get eradicated by those sites).
Lately, I've (sadly) found myself combating trolls from 4Chan and also having to explain what Microsoft Lunduke* is trying to do with those people.
Saying that banning them is against free speech is a lot like saying that fighting Islamic terrorism is an act of bigotry, rejecting of "inclusion". The "4Chan problem" is a very real problem, but it is not unprecedented; similar online hubs predate 4Chan, but few managed to survive. █
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* He's a very loud anti-Linux person whose main repertoire is "Linux Sucks" (mindless bashing and stigmatisation); it's an intersection between Microsoftism and "concern trolling", or when astroturf (corporate 'voices') try to replace grassroots, e.g. fake climate activists to supersede real ones. It's about abusing communities; this seems to be the purpose of Microsoft Lunduke, who having managed to alienate almost everyone some years ago has been leaning further and further to extreme audiences, now pandering to 4Chan and similar online cesspools.