'Google is NOT the gatekeeper to the web, as some claim'

Re: "This is a false flag by /whichever agency/, probably NSA or something."

Yes, why bother, the main threats they need to focus on are whistlebowers, civil and digial right groups and such. 4chan can be a convenient scapegoat but the time doesn't seem to be right for that now.

Re: "This is a false flag by /whichever agency/, probably NSA or something."

Paranoia, but potentially justified paranoia. Anonymous have made a lot of enemies - some of them very powerful people, as when they targeted banking infrastructure in protest of the financial blockade of Wikileaks. It's quite plausible some of those many enemies may have decided it desireable to close 4chan, the primary home and recruiting ground of Anonymous, and hired a PR agency to find a way to inspire public opinion against them.

Re: Interesting data on Bendgate

The bendgate complaints came from people who sat on phones in their hip pocket. Such a phone was probably quite warm, especially if the sitter was on the large side. Have the testers considered whether prolonged warming of the phone, with resultant softening of the glue holding display/battery/etc in place might make them more bendy? Rather like a bar of chocolate, the break/bend point will be very different if the bar has been sat on in your pocket for an hour.

Re: Those damn people who oppose climate change!!

The actual root cause of slow progress on solutions is that the environmentalists tend to be idealists with zero management skills and they haven't even come up with a pragmatic, sorted by cost-benefit, efficient, achievable priority list.

Where's the list? Who is working on it? Coal had better be near the top. Chinese have a plan to switch to Siberan gas. That's progress. About -1% in one action.

E.g. Humans achieved orbit through effective action. They didn't waste decades debating with The Flat Earth Society. They made a workable plan and executed it.

Environmentalists need to refocus on making a plan.

Rantic seems to barely exist as a corporate entity, though. This is itsself suspicious: It may well be a front to provide some protection, either legally or in anticipation that antagonising 4chan is likely to result in DDosing.