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imdb is privately owned and operated. free speech isn't guaranteed and it certainly isn't an inalienable right to fill every public forum on earth with your volatile hate speech

It is their board they can do what they want with it.

it really does slowly dying

>>79088298
>he thinks this is about free speech

You can go to thousands of message boards and discuss whatever you want. Eliminating ONE of them isn't going to change anything.

>>79088298

The thing you need to be more concerned about it what is Amazon's long game, how long till they stop reviews on Amazon.com which is worrying seeing they are trying to crack into the food business now as well

>>79088298
Well, there's always Stormfront, Nazi.

>After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide.

lmao so they finally realized their message board is cancer and decided to put it out of it's misery. Good for them.

>>79089840
>>The thing you need to be more concerned about it what is Amazon's long game
Everybody knows what the long game is.

Here it is in form of a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg

>>79088298

This is just for you: https://xkcd.com/1357/

>>79088298
Congratulate yourselves, stinky pedos.

>it's real

what the fuck?

>if you aren't a drooling idiot fanboy you are a Nazi

Too bad I liked the movie specific forums. Pretty much the only reason to visit IMDB for me.

>>79090811
Same. Hope the posts get archived.

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>>79089833
>one

>>79089896
They aren't banning a person for being an asshole

They're banning everyone

>>79088328

>>79090839
comment sections being plagued with outrageously offensive garbage is actually alienating to normal people who browse. it can't be good for business

>>79089840

they won't stop reviews. the best they could do is only allow views from verified purchases.

>>79090839
imdb boards was slow as shit and full of morons. why waste the bandwidth

>>79088298
that's right jay a private company no longer hosting a message board is censorship

>>79091264
amazon shutdown theirauthor discussion boards too

>>79090640
who are you talking to?

>>79091310
Tell me some commons that aren't privatized yet. Where exactly can you go to exercise this "free speech" in 2017?

WITH THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE

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but ive spent my whole life trolling on Pope John Paul II's imdb page...

are you telling me it was all for nothing?

>>79088298
this sucks because i usually went to those boards when i finished a movie. probably the least offensive and political boards on internet

>>79091310
Of course it's censorship. Censorship and free speech aren't exclusive to the government.

Why do liberals always confuse freedom of speech with the first amendment?

>>79088298
>A bunch of faggots shitpost cancer memes and jokes on a comment section/message board
>Get mad when people get annoyed and take their sandbox away
Freedom of speech isn't going away. People just get tired of commenters acting like cunts all the time.

>>79091328
be more new

>>79090839
>retarded obese edgelord neckbeards saying racist shit in every comment section they can find, insulting everyone and shitposting 24/7
>normal people get tired
>B-BUT MUH FREE SPEECH
Kek I hope every comment section gets shut down and all you have left is this shithole

These threads indicate why it was necessary, neckbeards start swarming in autistically screeching about Jews

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I wouldn't have to see more of this. Thanks God.

Their message board system was literally always shit. Glad that trainwreck's being retired.

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>>79091511
qft
but we cant expect people who hate this country to understand anything about it

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>>79088298
Is this because all the threads on Brendan Fraser's IMDB page?

>>79088298
They shut it down because of the hundreds of millions of users on their site, only a couple million use the message boards, and there's a fuckton of them, and that requires a lot of resources

>>79093420
>and that requires a lot of resources
It literally doesn't though.

>>79090825
They've already deleted the vast majority of their archives, lots of threads from mid-2000s totally gone and inaccessible on Wayback machine

IMDB's message boards are pretty shit, and I never post on them, but I almost always give them a click glance after watching a movie. Often it was a good way to find out about stuff I didn't notice or pick up on. Oh well.

>>79093556
>They've already deleted the vast majority of their archives, lots of threads from mid-2000s totally gone and inaccessible on Wayback machine
...what the fuck?

>>79090839
NO DISSENT ALLOWED

WE CANNOT SHOW THERE MAY BE A DISSENTING OPINION

OUR WRITINGS ARE GOSPEL, NOT TO BE QUESTIONED.

>>79093556
>>79093682
it never had an infinite archive you dumb fuck noobs

Hey, it's ok, there's a subreddit already up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IMDbFilmGeneral/


>NO RACISM, MISOGYNY, HOMOPHOBIA, OR HATE SPEECH: This board is a welcoming place to all... except the hateful. You're entitled to your personal opinion if it's posted respectfully, but any overt hate speech and you're immediately banned.

>DO NOT SPAM THE BOARD: Any obvious spam or obnoxious trolling will result in your post being deleted, and repeat offenders will be banned. This isn't like IMDb


See it's even better :)

>>79091264
How can you come to this conclusion when sites like Breitbart are growing rapidly? People like to discuss news.

Reminder for those recently entering the thread that there is a petition circulating to keep IMDb message boards up. 3000 signatures in the past 12 hours, already surpassing its goal of 2,500.

Please sign. This petition website is very easy and doesnt require verification through email or any of that shit. Just sign and be on your way.

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#

>>79089822
those boards have been cesspools for over a decade though nobody actually discusses the fucking movies anymore its like /tv/ lite

>>79091461
Ya

>>79092309

>Im better than you even though I come here xD
What did the conceited douchebag mean by this?

>>79094004
capeshit and star wars forums, sure. generals and a shitload of movie specific boards still have great discussion.

it's an enormous loss. changes a lot of things in the industry from the viewer's side. for the worse, mostly.

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maybe brendan fraser will post on /tv/ now

>>79088298
Is IMDBgate going to be the next big thing?

Hopefully some of you autists are doing some digging to uncover if there is something more sinister happening here.

>>79094105
It's his brother posting on the IMDB boards though.

>>79094124
brendan pls

>>79094089
>it's an enormous loss. changes a lot of things in the industry from the viewer's side. for the worse, mostly.
If it was somewhere like 4chan and /tv/ boards getting shut down i'd be gutted.

IMDB forums have been in decline for ages though i havent really been on them in a LONG time

>>79094134
>i havent really been on them in a LONG time

obviously. more power to you.

>>79094004
>I can sum up an entire message board of every movie, actor, producer, writer, director ever in existence from the Suicide Squad message board

Fucking underage b& cancer really needs to fuck off

>>79094173
seemed pretty dead or full of trolls so i just stopped going
>>79094178
it was just full of endless pointless shitposting, the moderation was non existent

>>79094203
You do realize there is literally a message board attached to every movie and cast member ever in existence, right? And the vast majority were nowhere near the shitposting levels of 4chan and /tv/.

Theres more to the boards than just the general IMDb forum, which I never went to anyways.

>>79094178
>every movie, actor, producer, writer, director ever in existence

the most convenient and nonreddit-culture forum for all of these lost forever after ~20 years.

people don't get the weight of this.

RIP TheChamCham.

>>79089782
This. You're free to start your own message board or newspaper or whatever, don't expect other people to allow you to use their bandwith to say things they don't like.

ITT: Everyone that doesn't understand what free speech on the internet means.

>>79094343
We don't care. It was cesspool and needed to be shut down for a long time/

>>79091264
>>79090839

hahahah how can comments bother you?? hahaha like just dont scroll to the bottom of the page nigga

>>79088298
>>79090839

does anyone got that Atlanic article that was amended 10 times because the comment section pointed out they were liars?

>>79093953
Sites like Breitbart actually gain business from being controversial/reaffirming certain viewpoints that many "troll" commenters love. Not surprising that them having a comment section is good while a more liberal publication like NPR doesn't want half their readership to feel antagonized

>>79094419
aka 15 year olds who never experienced the pre-iphone era internet.

>>79094425
true when it comes to every marvel, DC and Nolan movie's board.

not for the rest.

>>79094473
Couldn't be more wrong.Also that is not an argument.

>>79094526
who's arguing?

Anyone else always checked the IMDb forums after every movie?

>All those annoying cliffhanger thread titles

>>79094619
EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING that the movie's just over two hours, I wanted it never to end, 11/10

>>79094619
yeah
>>79093594

>>79094505
this. Some lesser-known movies actually had GREAT boards.

>>79094619
yeah. Going to miss this. /tv/ is not the same.

>>79090839

Discuss.js is shit, and I don't blame them for not trying to shoe-horn in a forum on their content sites.

>>79090839
it's not about censorship

it's about safespaces

people finally gave up on that whole
>nigga just grow thicker skin
idea.

I don't know how to feel about it.

>>79095334
hahahaha LOOK AT THIS PUSSY ASS FAGOOT LOOK AT HIM

>>79089896
Fallacy.

>>79088298
On the mainstream yeah. It seems that hopefully we'll experience another message board renaissance once we'll have to retreat to tor.

>>79094459
This.

This is the main reason sites want to get rid of comments. They are tired of getting called out on their bullshit on the same page where there dumbshit readers can see it.

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>>79094459
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/ultrasound-woman-pregnancy/514109/

>/pol/ complains about imdb shutting down internet boards
>doesn't complain about the trump administration blatantly lying about things that never happened

Fucking hypocrites

>>79095629
fuck this makes me mad

>>79095657
Fuck off faggot go complain to /pol/ not here

>>79095679
weehhhh weeehhhhh

>>79095629
You can push whatever shitty philosophy you want but how the fuck did they manage to get the simple historical facts that could be checked in 5 seconds on Wikipedia wrong?

>>79095732
>>>/pol/

>>79095766
>>>/reddit/

>>79095778
>>>/pol/

>>79095792
>>>/reddit/

>>79095766
>>79095778
>>79095792
>>79095818

Pure cancer

there's going to be even more shitposting on /tv/, great

>>79093420
>>79093500
>resources

It's like couple of hard drives of data at most.

>>79095291
But the internet as a whole is a safespace. All of the content you enjoy is personalized for you. Don't like a website? You don't have to browse it. Don't like a post? You can hide it. Don't like a person? You can block them. This applies to every website, including 4chan.

The only time you aren't in a safespace is real life, because then you are forced to be with people who are different from you regardless of your personal choice

>>79089782

>it's an "idiot confuses public free speech as a law and private free speech as a principle" episode

>>79096054
Hate speech isn't free speech in the first place, and if these Internet forums are just megaphones for Nazis then it's high time to take the baby's toy away and let him cry in his mother's basement

>>79096021
anon, you think like someone from the 90s

in current year, seeing a bitchy comment is the end of the world

>>79096021
>pimpmyride.jpg

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>>79096175

You should honestly just kill yourself.

>>79096175
If you guys hate Internet nazis so much why don't you just block and filter them? Is that not enough? Fucking babies.

>>79096211
>boohoo I can't use servers and bandwidth owned by productive citizens to call people racial slurs on the Internet anymore
Why don't you stop being a pathetic fucking virgin and get a life

>>79096175
>Hate speech isn't free speech in the first place

Love this meme

>>79096257

That's funny CTR, since your own boss called you a basement nerd virgin.

>>79094343
This. Goldmine for discussion on old and obscure movies.
Fuckin valve moved from vbulletin style forums to simple message boards for every game on steam, there you have your stickies and bugthreads and shit, comfy af.

>>79090839

>anything I dont like is hate speech

Cunts where I will I go for entertainment apart from this stellar place

>>79096265
So according to you I should have the right to say kill all white people and then continue saying that until it actually happens because free speech right

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>>79097959
Let's face it.

If you say it often enough, you'll end up with your own multi-million dollar TV contract.

>>79089896
>not defending someone's right to speak their mind especially when you don't agree with them

ISHYGDDT

>>79088298
>Does free speech slowly dying on the internet?

Free speech is only free speech when you agree with it...

>>79097959
As long as you defend my right to say hang all niggers, sure.

>>79097959
>So according to you I should have the right to say kill all white people

you just did
and nothing happened
so what's the problem?

>>79098344
Ironically she doesn't want negros in her kid's school.

>>79088298
It's over. Just deal with it.

>>79090839
Literally getting rid of all dissenting opinions that don't fit the hivemind it's hilarious. They're acting like fascists while blaming others of being one.

>>79088298
>amerifats still don't know what free speech means

>>79093890
Clearly they should cater to spammers and dumb /pol/fags who escape containment ;)

>>79096054
Private speech as a principle has never existed outside the minds of dumbass sjws and /pol/tards who get mad when someone just shut down their thread about white supremacy

>>79098637
Everyone is all for reasoned and informed opinion. For that is the basis of productive discourse.

This has never described IMDB message boards.

>It's the trolls
Get real, IMDB is ditching the boards because everyone was rightly calling out studios for making shit films and it's hurting their sales

>>79099136
>bad movie
>I liked it fite me

>good movie
>i didn't like it fite me

>>79099136
they're removing the boards m8, not the user reviews

>>79098907
Sure it has. If you severely interfere with somebody's channels to speak publicly, then it starts to become an issue of freedom of speech, especially since the government and these corporations have worked together to suppress the proliferation of ideas they don't like.

An analogy would be banning the sale of ammo to restrict the right of owning a gun.

>>79099407
The easiest and most obvious problem to point out with what you're saying is corporate entities have no obligations to the bill of rights.

A slightly less obvious point against you is how the IMDB message boards have been absolutely worthless for as long as they've existed.

A third point against you is how, if there really is a controlling entity seeking to quash all dissent on the internet, they know they don't actually need to shut down avenues of discourse. They can just flood those avenues with so much shit it makes everything contained therein look like shit.

>>79099407
>An analogy would be banning the sale of ammo to restrict the right of owning a gun.
Does it mention ammo in the constitution? Didn't think so Drumpflet

>>79099533
>The easiest and most obvious problem to point out with what you're saying is corporate entities have no obligations to the bill of rights.

As I've said, a lot of this has been motivated by the government pressuring these corporations to get a better handle on sentiments that run contrary to what the government likes. The government and these corporations are tightly connected.

I know the EU, for example, has been pressuring Zuckerberg about this.

>A slightly less obvious point against you is how the IMDB message boards have been absolutely worthless for as long as they've existed.

Not really relevant to what I'm saying. OP was talking about the push for censorship across the internet as a whole, which is what I'm referring to.

>A third point against you is how, if there really is a controlling entity seeking to quash all dissent on the internet, they know they don't actually need to shut down avenues of discourse. They can just flood those avenues with so much shit it makes everything contained therein look like shit.

It's much more efficient to shut down the forums all together. But they can do both depending on what it is they want to censor.

>>79099533
>A slightly less obvious point against you is how the IMDB message boards have been absolutely worthless for as long as they've existed.

There is a message board on IMDb dedicated to every single movie and TV show ever made, they are approximately ten thousand more useful than this hellhole where you can't even talk about Star Wars without someone derailing the thread to talk about Trump never mind talk about a movie that isn't the latest blockbuster franchise.

>>79099533
Who is to say your third point didnt actually happen? Which in turn caused your second point to happen? Though IMDb was great and very useful before the rise of Reddit and social media, was still useful even still long after the fact.

Trolls are on every message board, especially on /tv/ of all places. Doesnt make it right to shutdown the entire thing just because a couple of snowflakes got their fee fees hurt and dont know how to use the filter/ignore features.

Somebody set up an alternate site.

http://imdb2.freeforums.net/

>>79099642
The Supreme Court has already ruled on this before, that banning ammo like that is effectively the same as banning the guns.

>>79099713
This.

Theres nothing like it anywhere across the entire web.

I always use the board to see if a director cut or theatrical cut is better or whatever. Fuck Imdb, this is dumb.

>>79099736
Not if private companies do it.

>>79099769
The corporations don't have to manufacture anything at all. I'm talking about the government.

They can't do this. I was a top dog on the Harry Potter forums and now they steal it all away? Fuck you!

>>79099792
Who was even talking about that? Go back to /pol/ fascist

This is all because people were outspoken about Ghostbusters, which was a massive flop any way you look at it.
All they need to do is have better moderation and verification of users. Could even just use Facebook profiles for the threads.
Shutting it down just makes them look like cowards.

>>79099840
My overall point is that a lot of these "private" restrictions are motivated by the government pressuring corporations to censor badthink, which is an indirect form of censorship by the government.

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>>79099713
>you'll never again go on the IMDb board for some indian cartoon from the 90s you saw on tv at 2am and read a conversation that started in 2003 and someone has been adding one post to per year but actually explains that it was based on an old ass newspaper comic strip about a certain political climate at the time so you understand wtf was going on and you weren't just high af

>>79089782
>it's another "leftist turns into a corporate shill" episode.

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Soon lads

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>>79099942

This is a corporate decision to make sure word of mouth doesn't spread about Movies/Shows being shit. They want to remove consumer protection.

>>79099942
this desu

people base their opinions on popular boards, which are obviously dominated by trolls and idiots, but fuck, less popular boards were often great.

also, resident posters could help you out with
>what's that song at 44:15
and similar stuff in a very professional manner...

fuck modern internet

You know guys, I assumed this is happening because who the fuck even uses the imdb message boards? No really, who? Don't you fucking lie to me.

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>>79099942
>you'll never go on the board for a low budget horror movie you stumbled upon on youtube to find the director himself arguing with teenagers about his own plotholes

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>>79089782
Get a load of this fag

>>79094387
This is true, absolutely. What isn't acceptable is leftists thinking they can shut out speech they don't like.

They can shut it down on their private websites, sure - shutting it down at universities, or in any public forum, when the owner of such forum is perfectly okay with it, is unacceptable.

>>79096175
>Hate speech isn't free speech in the first place

HAHAHAHAHA YES IT IS YOU DUMB FUCK

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>if these Internet forums are just megaphones for Nazis
People can do what they like with their own websites, banning whatever they like

What ISN'T acceptable is banning any speech you don't like - for example leftists trying to ban Milo speaking at Berkeley. He had the permission of the venue, therefore had every right to speak there

STAY MAD YOU SALTY FAGGOT

>>79097959
Yes you should every single right to say it

Speech is not action

Once violence happens, that's a crime, and you can enjoy your jail time :)

>>79100256
This sound a very interesting and fun thing, but I never saw one myself. Examples, anyone?

>>79100256
I once argued with the director piracy is good
I feel ashamed now, he was an OK guy

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>mfw I just learned they're shutting down club penguin too

THAT'S IT!!! IM DONE!!! YOU'LL REGRET TRYING TO MAKE ME USE YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE!!!

>>79097959
Go right the fuck ahead. Plenty of people will then exercise their right to call you a dumbass, but feel free to shout it until you're blue in the face.

The simple answer is that leftists do not live by a principle of free speech in their own lives.

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>>79099942
>>79100229
>tfw an "I Need To Know" dweller identifies the flick after you describe a scene you half-remember seeing 20-odd years ago

>>79088298
Fuck, it was a decent forum.

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>>79100276
>using drumpf reaction images
>typing essay replies to posts 12 hours ago

>>79100463
The honest answer is that everyone wants to shout down and suppress opinions they don't like, whether they will admit it or not.

>>79089890

>he woke

wtf I love Leonard Cohen now

>>79099718
>Who is to say your third point didnt actually happen? Which in turn caused your second point to happen?

Because IMDB was shit long before the internet went mainstream.

>>79099702
>It's much more efficient to shut down

only if you want more dissent.

>>79100775
Well, yes. Fascism would be great to anyone if you're on top. Or to be king, etc.

>>79100775
its really only teenagers (and those of like minds) that want to shout down opposing opinion.

Calm and reasoned discourse, on the other hand, enriches everyone even when there is no meeting of minds.

>>79100827
His 90s stuff was uncannily prophetic.

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkRqQQWu_mA

Too bad he lost his shit in the 00s and completely went back on everything he ever stood for in the last album.

>>79100960
Sounds like he was just rolling with the times.

>>79100276
ACTUAL Hate Speech, as in ACTUAL harassment and incitement is not free speech, because it is an action and not a simple expression, it isn't the actual speech which is the harassment.

Saying you don't like someone is free speech, following them around all day shouting 'you're a fucking cunt' at them isn't.

>>79100507
to be fair, I had some luck on /tv/ with that, but yeah

>>79088349

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>>79091393

But privatization of everything is what's going to lead us into the glorious free market future!

It's not tyranny if it's a private company doing it.

>>79100683
>drumpf
>he's a leftcuck
I'm so sorry for your loss

>12 hours ago
None of them are 12 hours ago.

They're 8, 4, 2.5, and 2.5 hours ago

Fucking idiot

>>79100829
>only if you want more dissent.

this

if you shut down something people rally up and make their own version
and you don't even have mod powers there (at first)
sliding and similar techniques are much more effective

t.professional shill

>>79101003
>ACTUAL Hate Speech

Not even a real thing

Besides, what's wrong with hatred?

>>79100918
*tips*

>>79093996

3400 now.

>>79101003
The problem with that is this is the internet. Its just text. Its not speech. Its not throwing shit at people. Its not burning crosses. Its not assault. Its not harassment. Its just text.

The less you're exposed to something, the more sensitive you are to it.

>>79101004
>that one guy who believed he was looking for Problem Child 2

>>79095657

>/pol/
>Fucking hypocrites

being this new

>>79100775

I love hearing opinions I don't have because it's fun to get into debates and once in a while I will even learn something. If everyone just said what I already thought I would be really fucking bored since all I do all day is get into arguments on the internet and learn about autistic shit.

>>79100986
Maybe that's just what happens when you live too long.

Still, going from a completely accurate description of the endgame of postmodernism to actively participating in it and praising it...

Guess it was just in his nature.

>>79101142
>3400 now.
out of
2.5mil users

good luck petitioncuck

now if only /tv/ would shut down. look , would it be a blow yes. but would the world be a better place? YES

>>79094465
This.

I was in an thread on the Army's website and 100% of the comments were about obama being a nigger and gays not being real men.

The article was about tattoos in the military. These people can't keep that shit to themselves.

>>79101336
Leonard cohen was an entertainer. Nothing else.

>>79101342
I'm not so sure. Maybe the lives of some/many would finally get to some place, but to the world- and the internet- it would be just another 'freer' place shut down, more dissent silenced.

>>79101003
In the United States, any speech is permissible under 1A unless it "will lead to imminent violence"

This has been confirmed in two recent Supreme Court cases:

R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, (1992)
Snyder v. Phelps (2011)

The second one concerned the Westboro Baptist Church (Phelps is Fred Phelps, the head of the church). In an 8-1 ruling, SCOTUS ruled that they are allowed to say "God hates fags" and all that shit.

In both cases, the court upheld their "historically strong protection of freedom of speech, so long as it doesn't promote imminent violence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States

>>79101357
>100% of the comments were about obama being a nigger and gays not being real men
Failing to see a problem here

they paid MILLIONS for movies for YOU to enjoy. and what do you do? TRASH THEM, abuse them. you people don't deserve new movies anymore.

>>79101357
Just how the brain works. They're so obsessed with [whatever] they are unable to not see it everywhere and always think its relevant.

Like the tangential relationship there was how gays and black people tend to have more tattoos than straight and white people.

>>79089896
Did you just link to an image on an image board?

it has nothing to do with imdb. youtube comments, reddit, 4chan, imdb, its everyone. people say the wrong things. and boom

>>79101423
Exactly, who still likes anything or anyone unironically, or engages in any kind of a sincere analysis of someone's body of work without the lens of cultural critique, what a stupid pleb.

>>79101423
t. someone who never heard of the guy until he croaked

>>79101465
I hate people like you
>typing out whole sentences with punctuation
>presenting facts
where do you think you are?

>>79101540
No one really cares what people say. The issue right now is how they're saying it.

Its the distinction between calmly talking about whether or not the theater is safe in the event of an accidental ignition of combustion and screaming FIRE over and over.

>>79101608
An avenue of anonymous discourse where people can say whatever they want without fear of reprisal.

fuck imdb honestly. for them to just shut down their entire message boards over people being stupid is retarded. perhaps they should take a more laissez faire approach to the message boards instead of moderating like crazy with some threads having over half the posts "removed by the administrator.

there literally is no other place where you can watch a movie (literally any movie pretty much) and then go find people talking about it and discussing said movie. same goes for actors and directors, etc. fuck them for shutting it all down for nothing.

>>79100051

Holy shit. Right in the feels. ;_;

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>>79094465

normies love slinging shit too and any news site that closes comments sees their numbers plummet

>>79101908

Based /pol/ lady.

>>79101764
They've been trying for decades to shake their image of asshole of the internet. Only to attract more assholes.

>>79101908
>any news site that closes comments sees their numbers plummet

Perhaps maybe "news" should stop being "for profit" then

>>79101998
As opposed to what? State run?

>>79101615
>implying I couldnt literally be arrested for very calmly and respectably saying on facebook I think the numbers of the holocaust might have been inflated

>>79101908

i like how they made the woman the republican because women are stupid and are more likely to vote republican.

>>79100960

REPENT REPENT

What did he mean by this?

>>79102058

maybe in germany. not in the USA.

it's funny though /pol/tards don't say anything calmly and respectably. it's all just parentheses and autistic screeching blaming the jews for all their (and the worlds) problems. oh, and hating niggers too (i get that though).

>>79101339

Thanks, Anon.

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>>79094375
RIP in peace

Was it ever confirmed that he was Brendan or not? The world may never know.

>>79102016

How about "breaking even"?

>>79102263

of course it's not him. it's some delusional retard who probably doesn't even know him.

>>79102528
brendan...

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>>79088298

>tfw I can no longer talk to Terrence Malick under his IMDB pseudonym

>>79100829
>only if you want more dissent.

That's why these tech companies are usually quiet about cenorship in many cases. It's why shadowbanning exists, for example.

Also, if there is no outlet to express dissent, then the dissent cannot grow, at least not in an organized way.

Basically >>79088298 also social networks. They aren't the first to give up their own forums just so that people comment their shit on social networks.

Normies aren't interested in forums anymore. Which is great news. Actually they may soon stop using web browsers at all and just use apps. The gap between the old internet of IRC, newsgroups, public UNIX and imageboards, and the new internet of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube will grow even bigger, and soon they won't even have any way at all of knowing we exist or checking what we do.

>>79101342
yes Mark Zuckerberg, the world would be great if there was no actual discussion allowed and all you could do was hit like and post emojis

>>79102824
>Actually they may soon stop using web browsers at all and just use apps
holy shit, I'd love that

>>79088298
Uh what? Why?

Wasn't their boards like the heart of their entire operation?

>>79088298
It's not dying, it's dead. You have most social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook limiting the availability of posts containing opinions they don't like, YouTube not notifying people when a channel releases a video whose content they disagree with, Reddit shadowbanning people, even on 4chan mods will just outright delete threads they don't like without proper justification.
Free speech is dead and buried. I'm just glad I won't be around to see what future generations who will grow up without ever knowing what free speech is look like.

>>79088349
how do i too flaunt my superiority?

>>79102824
I still don't have a smart phone and it's increasingly going to make me look stupid to normies isn't it?

>>79103370
If you don't have a smart phone, you already look like such huge loser to the average normie that that perception could not possibly increase more.

>>79103465
Yeah thinking about it depresses me. Whatever my motherboard from 2011 is still better than their pos smartphone anyday.

>>79103370
wait, you mean you don't have a smartphone
and people ARE NOT constantly asking you about it?

how is it possible? I guess you don't go outside much?

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>>79103259
Free speech will never die senpai, what these corporatist scum cunts are doing is being anti intellectual. Morality can't be engineered simply by eliminating dissenting opinions. It's on a spiritual level.

>>79103544
I do when I need to, I just haven't needed to much. I am though waiting to see if i got a job I interviewed for. Still I don't really think people have brought it up more often it's me that just says "oh I don't have a smart phone" like if it's for something that mentions an app.

>>79103370
Well in a convoluted way, if you don't have a smartphone and accounts everywhere in a major first world city, you don't exist.

Fortunately there are still plenty places in the first world countryside, and nice places in the third world like Bangkok and shit, where people acknowledge you based on your physical presence, not your virtual number of friends.

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I loved reading the boards for each film after watching, just to see what people were saying, read discussions about inconsequential parts of the movie, etc. It's such a shame. I rarely posted but I liked checking the boards. Would you believe I went a good decade before even knowing that there was a general forum, I thought it was just the boards for each film and actor.

If I want to read a discussion about the type of Jacket Brian Dennehy is wearing in some made-for-tv dirge at 4am, where am I going to go now?

By the way, I preferred the crotchety oddball type posters in IMDB much more than the bores on Reddit. Do you know how to get huge amounts of Karma there, literally make a thread "I watched this again and I really think it was very underrated" and post a link to any film that is even slightly less well-known than a blockbuster.

Are they gonna get rid of the user ratings too?
They might as well go for full on censorship to protect their masters

>>79103947
I can relate too well.

So many comfy, sometimes decade-old threads you can get lost in. For two more weeks.

>>79103868
>Fortunately there are still plenty places in the first world countryside, and nice places in the third world like Bangkok and shit, where people acknowledge you based on your physical presence, not your virtual number of friends.
Haha. Not really, everyone has smartphones now. You're describing the situation 6-7 years ago.

>>79104510
I live in Saigon, Vietnam, and I have to disagree. There's been a couple traffic jams due to Pokemon Go, but that aside, smartphones are used to complement human interaction, not replace it.

>>79103868
asia's the biggest market of smartphones you fucking moron, stop idealizing what you don't know

>>79104463
The rating system has been manipulated since 2008. It was changed following the outrage when TDK took over The Godfather's no.1 spot on the Top250.

All user submitted reviews are seen and have to be approved by staff before they can appear on the site.

>>79104661
Not surprised at all.
So what the fuck is the point of the site then?

>>79104580
see >>79104576 I guess

People in Asia use smartphones, but they don't have everything rest on it. It's still just a gimmick to them, it's funny, great to talk to people remotely, but that aside they'd rather meet face to face.

To the rational mind there can be no offense, no obscenity, no blasphemy, but only information of greater or lesser value.

>>79088298
So, are all the boomers going to be shitposting on letterboxd for now?

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>>79090839
We can't tolerate wrongthink in our comments section.

>>79104712
The database aspect had a point before the Wiki-culture.

For the last decade the boards were the only appeal.

>>79102801
>shadowbanning exists

prove it

Besides, they don't have to be quiet about it. They can "censor" whatever they want.

>>79088298
Well their traffic will be down 95%, I'll look up other sites.

>>79095735
when has pushing an agenda ever meant being truthful?

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>>79104784
You can think whatever you want. But if you can't express what you think cogently, you've no right to speak.

90% of the internet never makes it above the second level. 99.9% never makes it to the fourth.

What people are saying isn't being censored. How they're saying it is.

>>79088298
Aw man that sucks. I have an 11 year old account on imdb. That makes me an old school badass over there :(

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>>79105177

>>79090839
Well, maybe if people actually behaved themselves and had decent conversations then comment boards would be a valuable thing.

As it stands today, they are neither well-behaved nor valuable. In fact, some comment sections scare people off and that's not good for business.

This is /tv/, where everything is shitpost and meme, but you idiots have let it seep into regular life with all the Trump spamming and companies are going to have to react to try to push you back underground until you learn to act like adults.

What did you expect? That you would shitpost everywhere and people/companies would just stand by and take it? Not everyone enjoys autism as much as anon

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are they really closing imdb because of anti semitism?

where you guys getting this from?

are there lots of /pol/ guys there too?

>>79103370
stay strong anon

>>79105389
No, they're just bullshitting. It's getting closed because they don't make money from it and it allows rumors to spread that hurt the film industry.

>>79105436
>allows rumors to spread that hurt the film industry
like what lol

also are you a kike? 'cause you sound like a damage controlling kike. lots of kikes in hollywood, maybe these are the 'rumours' you're referring to?

>>79089782
I know they have the ability to do it, I'm saying it's a bad idea

>>79100397
NOOT

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>>79105488

>explains the situation without resorting to memes
>gets accused of being the problem

pic related

>>79105691
>evades the question
nice try kike

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What did he mean by this?

>>79088298
>its an op is a stupid cunt and doesnt know what free speech is episode

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I'm going to miss this place. It was lower than you-rube comments in terms of average IQ.

the 2 most popular boards by a huge margin where the anything goes and politics board

why in the fuck would someone go to a movie database site to discuss politics?

im glad they shut that sorry shit down SAD

>>79105488
They don't want a million "This actor is shit. This actor is gay. This actor is a Satanist" threads popping up and hurting their industry.

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>>79105757
>>79105945
post more imdb cringe

>>79093953
>Breitbart
>news

>>79105757
Autism.

>>79106019
but hollywood doesn't own imdb lol

>>79106027
The entire messageboard is cringe.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092359/board/nest/264444233?ref_=tt_bd_2

>>79106076
>implying IMDB doesn't take bribes

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>>79106027

>>79105729

Not even the same Anon, retard.

>>79106113
Bribes from who? For what? Ratings are user generated. People didn't even use the forums, that's a reason they're getting rid of them. Whenever I looked at a movie's forum the most recent post was like 2 months old. Most normies probably couldn't even find the forums since the site's layout is so fucked. No one shilled there.

>>79106182
how is that cringy?

>>79106113
>>implying IMDB doesn't take bribes
lmao you are so retarded. do you actually think hollywood is constantly monitoring trolls on imdb message boards?
>"Oh shit, AFatChick12 just called Jake Gyllenhaal gay!!!! Delete this post and we'll give you 1 million dollars in cash!"
you retard. There's something called twitter btw. if you think imdb holds more weight in circulating rumours than that you are seriously moronic. glwt

>>79106204
>still evading the question
kikes

>>79105488
Fuck off neckbeard. Nobody cares about your Jew butthurt

>>79106212
>overly sensitive authoritarian cry babies aren't cringey
Back to /pol/ / /leftypol/

>>79106210
>People didn't even use the forums
Yeah, sure

>>79106244
>overly triggered edgy fedoras on /tv/

back to the basement /keyboardwarrior/

>>79106280
In the age of reddit, twitter and Facebook, you really think there was some in-depth discussion going on on imdb?

>b-but muh kike c-conspiracy to shut down f-free speech

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>>79091461
kek

>>79106210
>People didn't even use the forums

didn't it have like 200 million hits a month?

>>79106378
The site, not the forums, you fucking mong.

>>79106228
>still evading the question

Stay triggered, dickshit.

>>79105389
The company that IMDB used to get admins for the boards is shutting down. Viewership oF the site is also down as people use YouTube for movie trailers now.

Those are the real reasons, the asbergers On this site will screech about anything being because of Jews though

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>open thread
>expect all the comments to be, "lulz what normie faggot uses imdb message board"
>instead a bunch of fags sucking imdb's dick and defending shutting down platforms of discussion

Every time you think /tv can't get any shittier....

>>79106317
Why don't you go cry about your message board dying some more faggot

>>79088298
>does free speech slowly dying on the Internet?

I don't know but yours sure is

>>79106365
No, I'm not /pol/, sorry to not be your boogeyman. And a conspiracy isn't necessary to silence people, as is the case.
And nice moving of the goalpost after claiming something utterly stupid.

>>79106409
stay ugly kike

>>79100276
>MY OPINIONS DESERVES TO BE HEARD AND IF YOU REMOVE THE MESSAGE BOARD(even though you own it and have every rights to it) YOU ARE REMOVING FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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>>79106365
There is though

>>79106461
It's really crazy, SJWs of all sides infest here. It's disgusting that people will defend free speech to be attacked or killed this way.

>>79106468
lol I'm not crying about it kike I dont even go there

>>79106475
>And a conspiracy isn't necessary to silence people

Oh no, the fucking imdb forums are closing! How else will people ever be able to hear your shitty opinion about the latest capeshit quipbuster? Oh Jesus, if only there were thousands, if not millions, of other sites where you could share your views no one asked for.

Truly, this is the death of freedom of speech and expression.

>>79089782
/thread

>>79088298
those message boards were the only reason to use the site other than seeing what a director or actor has coming up

>>79106602
Yeah, no, Chaim

>>79106622
>database
>but you use it for messageboards

pleb.

>>79106589
Okay, you just want to shitpost, we understand it.

>>79106589
>if only there were thousands, if not millions, of other sites where you could share your views no one asked for.
There aren't. They're all being deleted systematically and new ones are not being created to replace them. Comments from the public are no longer welcome online.

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>>79096284

>>79106675
>Comments from the public are no longer welcome online.

He says in an age where you can direct message the POTUS and called him an orange nigger if you want to.

Will you babies stop fucking crying about a forum? Faggots, all of you.

>>79106638
where else could you go to complain about shitty movies in the early 2000s. it was perfect all there

you'll just never understand. it was /tv/ before 4chan

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>>79106468
You know what Hollywood and /tv/ have in common? Jews.

You know what else they have in common? Pedos.

Coincidence?

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>>79106638
>wikipedia launch + 16 years
>using IMDb for the database

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>>79106802
>shilling wikipedia as a reliable database

spotted the shill. oh vey.

>>79106589

IMDB forums had everything in one place, not spread around on hundreds of special interest sites (that are also closing down).

>>79106758
>acting like no ones ever used the messageboard

you're cringy as fucky m8y.

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>>79106317

>>79106793
pedos are the /pol/ users, they openly admit it

Goebbels and Hitler were also sexual degenerates. Coincidence?

>>79088298

In general, depending on the board, people on imdb have way, way better taste than this place and are far more interested in films.

There are lots of plebs too but you will always run into people into good movies who are clearly interested in them. It is very rare to find more than a handful of people on this shithole that actually like/care about movies. It's a shame that imdb is going down.

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>>79107023
Is this accurate?

>>79107032
>doesn't even try to deny being a jewish pedo
lol

>>79106946
Be honest, when was the last time you posted on a forum on imdb?

Why don't the /pol/beards just make their own message board instead of relying on Jewish-owned sites? Do they even lack the ability to use Vbulletin?

>>79106931
>implying the site owned by fucking AMAZON would be more reliable

>>79107083
wut. I said the pedos on this board are /pol/ posters, not "the jews"

They openly admit it if you bring it up. They say they post their cp to "keep reddit away".

This is great news for anyone that wants to make money from the people that used that section. Just get a cheap vps and host it instead. Make sure to create a user-script for imdb that links to your site if there are discussions about the content.

Make sure to only put ads at the bottom and to the side so no one gets annoyed.

>>79107165
Its called infinity chan and is entirely inhabited by edgy high schoolers

>>79107235
Meant for: >>79107120

>>79107120
Because they need an impartial overlord to keep them from splintering and fighting amongst themselves and to clean up all their shit.

>>79107089

Today, yesterday, the day before.

Almost every day some pleb needs correcting.

>>79107235
That's also owned by Jews

>>79107378
You realize you're responding to trolls and you're part of the problem, right?

>>79107409

Nah, I always check their previous posts to spot the trolls. I don't want to waste my time and stroke their pathetic egos.

>>79106461
right?

>>79107089
it's not really about posting on recent shit, capeshit, politics recent oscarbait flicks, whatever - you can do that anywhere.

the thing I'll sorely miss is looking up (and maybe join) decade-old discussions about old and obscure movies and creators on their designated boards. convenient and comfy as fuck access to trivia and opinions you won't find on any other place.

>>79106461
its the jewish kids damage controlling again

even their shut in neckbeards are still zionists

>>79107205
this guy knows what's up

>>79107512
see >>79107409

You're giving them attention.

>>79107882

>reading comprehension

Try it, Anon.

>>79090839

I get this for news outlets and movie critic websites are who wants to read edgy comments made for attention seeking. A lot of everyday users visit them and don't really need to see what clintonsupport420 thinks about political stories.