"Hotwheels", former owner of 8ch, mysteriously receives a large Q in 2018
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Bullshit. Every. Message. Board. Has. Porn. Problems. Yes, even CP. I've ran several message boards, and periodically you'd get Feds posting child porn with honeypot links. It's sick. This has been going on for decades. It's the combination of an open image platform and the discussion of politics that draws them in like a bright light to flies. Again, this is why reddit, twitter and facebook are sole monopolies on the internet up until now. I think it's a miracle sites like this have been up for over a year, and I do believe white hats are at work.
I think Hotwheels made the mistake of "defending" child porn in a media interview. It was obviously a bad interview, but I have never once seen or witnessed any child porn on 8chan and I've used it quite extensively back then.
I was a lurker a long while back, and hung out on /pol and /b/....I hated seeing all the porn, so I could only manage small doses (and got wise pretty quick to opening images and links, t'be sure! LOL). I never really saw porn that involved children--again, learned fast to never click on anything randomly--but I did see a fair amount of images that had "young couples". I couldn't tell if the "participants" were over 18, but yeah, porn is an issue anywhere.
Remember that site, "Gaia Online"? people were posting nudes there and I know some of them were likely high-school kids most likely. At that time, our Daughter did the Gaia Art thing, so I told her how and what to avoid...especially that sort of thing.
AOL was the seed-bed for the bulk of this, too. Chatrooms, no verification, anonymous emails. Our teenaged Sons would get emails with seriously graphic images, get links in chatrooms and IMs. I remember they used to have AOL disks in Happy Meals and attached to cereal boxes back then, saturating the market (particularly though kids) to get them online and interested in handing out their images and getting them into clandestine activities.
Porn is an inherent problem with the Internet, not just the Chans.