@AmericanChampion
This reflects a cyber-utopian notion that the Internet should be a place for the free exchange
of information, free of state interference, an idea long-associated with 4chan (Nagle,
2017; Turner, 2006).
These conceptualisations of the /pol/ ‘self’ are contrasted with us as
‘cuckademics’, portrayed as representing a liberal-left consensus failing to grasp the
platform’s nature and appeal
"cyper-utopian", this was pre 2010 internet, nigger
@AmericanChampion further ethical issue concerns potential harm to researchers examining extreme con-
tent. Whether researching such platforms might lead to academics being ‘redpilled’ is
questionable, though should not be dismissed
Academics have acknowledged these con-
cerns themselves. Julia Ebner (2020), for example, describes fearing that she was being
radicalised while researching the ‘Red Pill Women’ online group