Ok, so on another message board I won't mention the name of so not to break any rules, I'll post my original response to a question someone had about image hosting for weed forums.

Ok, so a mod said, go post that shit about the owners of RIU and see how long you last there...so...me being the general asshole I am...hi.

So, is it possible or not possible, in a theoretical scenario, that the owners of a message board who I have NEVER met, and who I have NO INFORMATION on their dealings behind closed doors could POSSIBLY have been busted, given money, whatever, and been forced into giving information, EVEN AGAINST THEIR WILL, to a police agency?

Is it paranoid? Sure I guess.

Then another poster wanted to argue that weed is, infact legal in Amsterdam, to which I replied it is not legal but it's tolerated. Again...I was wrong according to them.

Now, I beg a mod, please respond to this post. I also went on countless times to explain that I was never saying anything derogatory against the owners of the site. Just simply stating that you don't actually know what the owners do with your information unless YOU'RE the owner lol. That goes for ANY website on the flipping internet FFS. Amirong?

Also, I'll give the mod the benefit of the doubt, he didn't ban me although apparently free speech and personal preferences aren't high up on his list of stuff he digs.

Here's the original post that brought up RIU in the first place:

Original quote that referenced RIU:

So what is your point?

Ok, I guess I didn't phrase it right.

Here goes:

Without knowing the owners of RollItUp.org, I cannot say one way or another if they are giving IP addresses, usernames, email addresses or anything else to police agencies. Although, I will say, that it is unlikely. I also have to say that while it is unlikely, it's also a possiblity so it is my personal preference to use image shack as opposed to uploading images to the RollItUp.org databases. This will also save on forum loading times by not bogging down the database with huge image files. That is all.

*Awaiting Banhammer*

I was wondering the samething.

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Their are several ppl on here that use imageshack. Never heard of it being a problem.

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Sorry, you guys don't really have a point of reference I guess. Basically, a thread was started on another message board where someone wanted information on how to discreetly post photos. Another poster replied and said "Why not just upload them to FORUMNAME" to which I replied with the first quoted post from the top. The mod said go post the same thing about the ROI owners, so I did. Is it unlikely that the owners of ROI.org are giving information to police agencies? Yes. Is it possible? I'm not the owner, so I have to say, yes, it's possible.

well i doubt the dea or other agencies will mess with anyone on this site. considering most people grow just a few plants and have a license of some sort. the other thing is as long as your not posting pics of open feilds of mj the dea would not waste the resources of busting you for a few plants. now if they have reason to beleive your part of a drug cartel and the pics of feilds of marijuana producing a ton of pot then they might check into you to see if it is what it is. there are too many weed forums and you would have read online somewhere already about someone getting busted at a forum. not to mention they are international forums so its a long shot for even a federal agent with federal jurisdiction to waste his time on these sites. not when you got osama bin laden and all those other people running around with guns and dynamite

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