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>Is it true that 4chan used to censor racism and tried to kill off /pol/?
Yes. Not because Moot wanted to spare people's feelings or be politically correct.

There's a certain type of scum that is attracted to racism, not for lulz, but it's their entire reason for existing. The Klan, Stormfront, Neo-Nazis, whatever you call them they're different slices from the same low IQ pie.

On an anonymous message board that doesn't really police its users you can't suddenly have thousands of people spreading an agenda around the clock, non stop. It can't effectively be policed without turning this into a 90s style Log-In with your username forum, which goes against 4chan's spirit.

You have to nip that shit in the bud, and bless Moot he tried but once it took hold there was no off-switch to send them back. The damage was done and 4chan was a "racist uncle" website one day and that was that. Moot was right to bail.