Artifact #6

The beginning of the video had a great attention-getter. There were two men talking and one started screaming and then the main part of the video started. The video was about a forum on the TED website that was completely annonnoymous. People can say whatever they want and stay nameless and it will be only be on the website for a certain amount of time. It all started when a young man who found a website called 4chan, which is a japanese webiste. He took the forum and used it on the TED site. There are rules for this website that most people ignore and there are three that the community have made up. The first rule is, "You do not talk about /b/". The second one is, "You DO NOT talk about /b/". And the third one, is "If it exsists, there's porn of it. No exceptions." Then the video explains what "/b/" is. It is the "beating heart" of the website, where all the traffic is going. People post many different things. One example is that there is a group that was apart of the website called Annonymous that posted things about Tom Cruise and protesting Scientology. The thing posted were taken off and many people were not pleased. After the young man was finised giving his presentation there were questions asked. One of the comments/questions had to deal with how things that are posted can be damaging and how it can be a risk. He agreed with the statement and I think that if something that was posted and offended someone of seemed inappropriate he would take it down. I think this video was really interesting because I had no idea this website was out there. The only site that I was familiar with that was somewhat similar is Wikepedia.