>From my own experience I dont think its just 4chan, so I used to be able to copy and paste paragraphs from web forums and paste them into Google and Google would give me a list of every website where the exact same conversations were taking place.

That sounds to me like there were spam sites that were making duplicates of real forums. I know I've found many results that are simply duplicates of Stack Overflow for example. If Google Search managed to filter out the spam sites from the results, that sounds like a good thing.

Disclosure: Google employee

> sites that were making duplicates of real forums

Horrible startup idea: silently syndicate groups of forums that use wildly different branding to achieve people with different viewpoints constantly engaging with each other in some potentially novel way to an outside observer.

Shit, now I don't know if I'm an AI.

> That sounds to me like there were spam sites that were making duplicates of real forums.

No, it was the security services.

Do you have evidence for that? Are the security services also the ones that make copies of Stack Overflow content?

Cant say about the Stack Overflow content, I've had loads of webpages removed from from the Wayback Machine.

The idea that everything that goes online stays online forever, forget that, they wipe what they like, so then it means that you get classed as mentally unwell, get locked up without trial and drugs forced down your neck. Rinse and Repeat.

I understand why massacres occur now.

Do you have an example URL that got removed from the wayback machine? I could email them and ask why. I know people sometimes they get DMCA requests which cause them to remove pages, and I think if the robots.txt tells them to remove the whole site, they'll remove all pages from the whole site. I think it's a bit strange to say that a page on the wayback machine being removed leads to drugs being forced down your neck.