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This thread is meant for newcomers those who don't know a thing about Endchan - or perhaps have the wrong conception, some old users might have. I intend to add more posts with time, but lock the thread for now to keep the parts together. Later comments can come into this thread too.

Endchan is an imageboard like any other but no imageboard like Endchan.
A community maintained platform, where communities set up their own space and regulate themselves. At global/website level we aim for the freedom of expression as the United States' Constitution allows it. On board level the communities can decide themselves what they allow as long as they keep the global rules.
With the imageboard format Endchan also provides a relative privacy and anonymity as the internet is lacking so much these nowadays.

The name and the theme of the chan were inspired by Douglas Adams' immortal novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the various adaptations of it. Beyond Endchan's Birthday we also celebrate Towel Day each year to honor of this great work.
This is true since the foundation of the site in 2015. Since then the place evolved thanks to the users who provided the mascot End Knight and Greyanon to represent it.

From the original humble size with continuous growth Endchan turned into this thriving imageboard with impressively modest amount of users. Weathered the storms of the internet, the collapse of other chans, and direct attacks. Many communities came and went, a few rooted and all together created a patchwork of colorful assemblage from all over the world, pressing it to embrace an international character.

Today, as always, Endchan is like the planet which gave birth to it:
Mostly Harmless
Endchan is a platform. But what a platform is?
A platform - such as Endchan, or Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, *chan... - is a bus. A mod is the bus driver, a dev is the mechanic, users are the passengers.
If one of the passengers stole the wallet of another passenger who would be liable for the act?
The thief, the road the bus runs on, the other passengers, the bus driver, the mechanic, or the bus itself?

A platform is not a publisher. It's not like a news site, a NGO's website, a personal blog. A platform is a service users can interact with and populate it with content, the publisher is the user.
In legal context a platform is an "interactive computer service" and its liability is regulated by "Section 230" (47 U.S. Code ยง 230 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230).
The freedom of speech is taken very seriously in the United States. If a user generated content was deleted on a platform, the user could claim that his freedom of speech was violated. Section 230 was put in place to grant immunity to platforms for removal content they deem harmful. But to be able to work, grow and be developed they are also not liable for the content users generate.
As Josh put it in an article, the lawmakers provided a sword and a shield for platforms. How I see it they gave them a shield so they can use the sword.

Please note: Section 230 doesn't mandate "interactive computer services" to remove any content. The law only encourages it and protects it.
This was in 1996, and this law made it possible for platforms to thrive. Since then other laws were passed, and future changes can be expected. We will return to them in a later post.



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