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This is armchair speculation but if I were DOJ I would either (A) demand root access to server or (B) employ admins, especially the unique "manager" RAPEAPE for 4chan-related work, and otherwise leave the platform to its own devices. (He -- RAPEAPE -- was discussed in depth by VICE for playing a special role in turning 4chan "more racist" -- https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4chan-into-the-internets-racist-engine/ )

There are so many stories of criminal informants being given a blind pass to criminal activity as long as they throw other people under the bus that I won't bother citing the plentiful articles on this subject.

Given that 4chan internally seems strongly committed to following US law as its gold standard and mentions of specially implemented systems for dealing with "GR1" (eg "when in doubt, send everything to FBI") I'm tempted to say that B is the more likely option. Less paperwork and manhours for DOJ to contribute as well. There are no legal grounds for officially handing the platform over to the feds and this is merely a feeling but I don't feel like moot would be fine doing that voluntarily.

Feds don't understand fediverse. When feds visited me 10 years ago over my forced-anonymous IRC network, they didn't understand anonymity or IRC. I'm tempted to say that feds cannot and will not understand 4chan for the same reasons they can't understand fediverse or IRC so it most likely makes sense that they would put site admins on their payroll and offer them kickbacks when they forward "actionable content" -- they tried to offer me a deal exactly like that for my network, despite not understanding how IRC or anonymity "work" -- obviously I rejected it but I could see they had a standard procedure for dealing with "weird online shit"

Here's a weird idea: feds approach RAPEAPE and say, "hey, by all means encourage more retarded nazis to post mentally ill bullshit on /pol/, and if any of it can lead to arrests we'll offer you a kickback." Now he can build strong "right" power while earning kickbacks from uncle sam when taking out the trash. And thus a janny manages to no longer do it for free.

cc @BowsacNoodle , @ins0mniak , @bajax