the message board 8Chan is notorious for allowing even the most hateful postings, and has been blacklisted by Google, after having diffused images of disadvantaged children. The site was also one of the major samlingspunkterna for those who participated in the systematic hatred, threats and harassment against female speljournalister and game developers in the high-profile gamergate-the scandal.
THQ Nordic set up on an open question and answer session on the site, 8Chan, which has already in advance was challenged by the company’s followers and, according to Breakit tracked the question quickly out of with the entry which, inter alia, to have contained the white power – and child-porn references.
To Breakit ” says the marketing manager Philipp Brock that he went on question time ”without doing the proper research to understand the site’s history and how controversial it is”. He also says that he regrets the decision and that it ”was wrong”.
