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o add to all of that, I think Trump would have been more proactive about commenting on it or trying to stop it if it was truly a LARP.

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which is where I am too, because he never really dealt with it, just sort of evaded the questions as the MSM turned up the heat more and more on the Q fuels rabid conspiracy theories leading to violence and insurrection storylines

Jim Watkins going to DC and testifying in front of Congress is fascinating to me

Here is a WAPO article on it
WAPO 9/12/19

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Jim Watkins also would become the face of one of the Internet’s most notorious sites, 8chan, defending the anonymous message board as a beacon of free speech even as it became a platform for announcing and celebrating mass murder.

Subpoenaed by the House Homeland Security Committee, Watkins, now 55, came to Washington last week for closed-door questioning by congressional staff on the site that before its recent collapse had styled itself “the darkest reaches of the Internet.”

But 8chan was only the most infamous of Watkins’s strange and tangled business web, which expanded for years from a shabby Manila office to millions of computers around the world — fueled by the strange chemistry of the Internet, where virtually anyone can turn a few servers into an online kingdom with its own culture, followers and code.

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No transcript was released of Watkins’s back-and-forth with committee staff, but the committee’s leaders, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Rep. Mike D. Rogers (R-Ala.), released a statement thanking Watkins for providing “vast and helpful information” about his companies and said they looked forward to “his continued cooperation.”

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Watkins last week was photographed on Capitol Hill with a scruffy mustache, mutton-chop sideburns and a flag pin on his tie of Mississippi, the home state of Thompson, the committee’s top Democrat, who had subpoenaed him. He wore another pin on his collar of the letter Q, probably a reference to the 8chan-rooted fringe conspiracy theory QAnon, which claims that President Trump is secretly working to disrupt a sprawling cabal of world-dominating pedophiles.

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Watkins told The Post that he was questioned for four hours by congressional staff, that they had treated him “very fine,” and that he expected to be called back again. He said the site would assist with law-enforcement requests but would not ban what he called “constitutionally protected hate speech.”

The fate of 8chan, he said, is “the biggest test for freedom of speech since maybe 1969.”

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But Brennan, who split with Watkins last year following a long period of dysfunction and anger over the site’s direction, now pans the site as a long-lost cause, saying Watkins is severely unqualified to oversee the noxious platform he helped create. “8chan should never come back online,” Brennan said. Of Watkins’s latest comments, Brennan said it’s “more shady behavior from a man who thrives in the shade.”

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Watkins has said repeatedly he makes no money from running 8chan, and Brennan has claimed that the site’s content has made it repellent to advertisers, limiting its mainstream reach. Watkins told One America News last week that 8chan had earned about $12,000 a year in gross revenue and that the recent decision by some companies to stop working with 8chan was “commercial terrorism.”

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this article screams to me that Jim Watkins is protected, Watkins knows he is protected and Congress wanted to know why he is protected and by whom. There is no other reason I can think of why he would voluntarily leave Manila, fly to DC, expose himself to arrest to testify behind closed doors and no transcript would be available for a private citizen testifying in front of Congress on a public safety matter.

All this for a LARP? then he opens 8kun and opens himself to even further scrutiny? why would he and his son do that?