Generally no maybe some indirect funding at best. GLP is a notable exception which iirc gets some direct gov’t funding and direction through a think-tank nonprofit.
no. no reason to, as all the users are the same anyway
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The government doesn’t need to run them, they can just subpoena information when they need to do so. Moot even testified in the NFL bomb hoax thing. Users of 4chan, at least used to, delight in turning each other in, especially pedophiles. Here is a relevant section of wikipedia.
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Doubtful any of them would need to be created directly by a government to still be a “honey trap”
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Yes, and the same is true of this one.
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