Kang Daniel Tried to Shutdown a Forum. And People are Clapping?!

I am not his fan but I wish it worked. Freedom of speech that is used just to hate on harmless people never resonates with me. Maybe if you were in his shoes you would wish the whole internet to be shut down not just a community that has the majority dedicate their lives on hating you.

wow this dude must've been absolutely done, I felt bad for him when I read how the hate was affecting his mental health. not even sure why people seem to hate him so much. I want to say what was he thinking but tbh if I were him I'd probably do way worse

There was a rumor about him according to the employments he was dickhead i don’t expect so much about him so...

His lawyers should've told him what to do in these cases, if they decided to peruse it means that they saw a chance of it actually working

But I guess it didnt work

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i've heard there are specific sections(pages?) on dc inside which is full of hate for the bts members

i've seen k armys mail bighit with screenshots from dc inside

its really admirable that he tried to take steps but ig u cant really close down a forum

There is a hate sections in practically every forum or page on the internet, miserable people lashing out at idols

This is the down side of internet though

Im so happy he lost

Democracy win

I mean I can't lie. If people were sending me all kinds of hate on the internet and I was already in a bad place mentally, I'd react badly as well

DC gallery is like hell. Literally not comparable with the worst of akp or reddit r/kpop. People literally just insult and release wrong rumors on there. He can be a dickhead or not, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to hate on people. Free speech is only liable until it hurts someone else’s personal rights. That South Korea is backwards when it’s about cyberbullying is nothing new

I don't understand . He could just ignore that forum. Why try to shut it down bc some users on there are hating on him? There are way better ways to deal with such matters.

hopefully

from what I've heard dc inside community is very very toxic

Is this not the same place that had the anti-Twice slave room? Not sure why some of you are so desperate to defend that hellhole of a site

It looks like a place men go🙄

If Kang was just as vocal and suing the people who exploits women (Molka) then that would be different.

An internet forum who talks bad about you….well don’t go

I wish he had won. Expressing an opinion is one thing, but trying to tarnish one's dignity by constantly spreading false rumors is another.

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Not since the revamp. Before then, easily

it's not really comparable though dc gallery is basically when all antis get together (most of the hate idols face come from that place).

allkpop was toxic but not all of was dedicated to hate on idols tbh it wasn't as bad.

Isn’t DC gallery the worst of the worst? They make up fake rumors and organise attacks that actually affect idols careers and their toxicity is next level I heard.

I understand the side you're viewing from and I agree it is a slippery slope, but I've heard so many terrible things from multiple fandoms and seen what Daniel himself had to deal with from DC Gallery so I can sympathize with him. With what I've heard there has to be little to no moderation so perhaps a conclusion could be reached to at least do the bare minimum and moderate the thing? Then perhaps the bad reputation would get fixed up a bit

oh the rumors spread that time were way too much.. pd101 s2 rumors were a hell hole, there were literally death threats being sent to some and their families..

you cant blame him for wanting it to shut down.. worth a try I say..

its really ugly there and ieven if its not majority speaking its a lot bigger ratio than your akp, reddit or literally any other kpop forum..

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It's a bit of an exaggeration. It's toxic but almost every group has a major community and fanbases operating out of it. I don't see how it's any different than Reddit or AKP outside of scale.

It's not even DC itself that bothers me, the idea of people trying to take down an entire section because of minority hate comments coming from it makes me very uncomfortable, my faves or not. That's a very slippery slope and I don't think most countries would allow that to happen.

Sue the users, not the site

No it is worse than akp. Almost of every fake rumor of the last years comes from that forum. It is literally known as a hate forum. Other toxic but more like akp forums are like pann where you have toxic people and hate comments but in an “normal“ or inevitable amount. Also, he already sues user and malicious comments but the mods basically do nothing on there and allow everything.

If you think akp is bad than you have to go sites like lolcow and imagine it as worse as these

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There was a rumor about him according to the employments he was dickhead i don’t expect so much about him so...

Yeah it originated from there and it was fake

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I don't understand . He could just ignore that forum. Why try to shut it down bc some users on there are hating on him? There are way better ways to deal with such matters.

Because they then spread those rumors like gospel and facts under posts about him and other people and make stuff up out of malice and some of it sticks despite being 100% false

That's because you didn't read what was on that DC gallery Produce 101 season 2. I've been there to read and report. It's dozen of thousands of hate comments towards Daniel, with death threats and harassing comments. It's a place where they planified organised attacks and rumors against him. We reported hundred of those comments none has ever been deleted. Yes freedom of speech is important BUT it has limits. And the owners, moderators of this forums are responsible of what they deliberately let people write without ever deleting it.

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DC literally has almost no moderation. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how bad that can get…

What's "DC"? and where is it-- do you have a link?

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That's because you didn't read what was on that DC gallery Produce 101 season 2. I've been there to read and report. It's dozen of thousands of hate towards Daniel, with death threats and harassing comments. It's a place where they planified organised attacks and rumors against him. We reported hundred of those comments none has ever been deleted. Yes freedom of speech is important BUT it has limits. And the owners, moderators of this forums are responsible of what they deliberately let people write without ever deleting it.

Yeah, I feel like no one who knows the full extent of things that went down would dismiss it as easily as OP (who I like and have no hard feelings against) and some other people in the thread did

If it's just posters slandering him, he should just sue or take dow the individual posters. Kind of selfish to try to take down a whole forum if the admins are not the ones hating.

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If it's just posters slandering him, he should just sue or take dow the individual posters. Kind of selfish to try to take down a whole forum if the admins are not the ones hating.

The specific Gallery on DC Inside he's trying to take down is a Major Gallery, meaning the "admins" are just the owners of the whole site. They don't care enough to even moderate the Gallery. Major Galleries are notorious for being hell holes of unmoderated hate.

This Gallery has become about him, unlike what OP said. It strayed away from the original topic long ago and only antis exist there. So no it's not selfish. No one is going to lose anything important if the Gallery is taken down.

And he does sue individual posters, but when you're dealing with a good million hate posts, then suing a dozen people every few months doesn't do much.

I edited wording so it's more clear he's just asking to take down a Gallery about him, not the entire forum.

I don’t know how the forum is now but during the Produce seasons (the male ones since they were the ones I was following closely and bg stans are generally more wild) people crossed the line. It’s one thing to express a negative opinion and another to carry out organised mass hate campaigns against people. Sure they were some small sub forums that were nice and well moderated but overall it was a cesspool so I’m with him on this one.

I applaud him. I'm sorry it wasn't shut down. While I do post very minimally in a few on line spaces I honestly feel most forums and social media platforms are horrible, toxic places and should be shut down.

If they felt they DC didnt do enough (which they clearly dont looking at what comes from that place) there could be grounds for it all to be taken down by law. In this case the court ruled otherwise. But his laywers wouldnt have done it if they didnt think there was a chance.