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| − | A '''shock site''' is a [[website]] that is intended to be offensive or disturbing to most of its viewers, containing shocking material which is considered [[taste (aesthetics)|distasteful]] and crude, and is generally of a [[pornography|pornographic]], [[scatology|scatological]], or extremely [[violence|violent]] nature. In most cases, a shock site displays a single picture, some shock sites also show [[animation]]s or galleries of [[image]]s, shock sites are often passed around via [[email]] or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a [[hoax]] in an attempt to trick readers into following the link to the website.
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| − | The news and discussion site [[Slashdot]] has changed its software ([[Slash (weblog system)|Slash]]) to display the domain name of a linked URL in brackets following the link (example: "[http://news.example.com/ Click Here] [example.com]"), so that any link to [[goatse.cx]] or a similar shock site would be immediately visible as such. The change has been effective in reducing the number of links to shock sites even though [[Internet trolls|trolls]] began to set up mirror sites and use public [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] redirect scripts run by sites such as [[Yahoo!]] in an attempt to circumvent the measure.
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| − | ==Examples of shock sites==
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| − | ===Goatse.cx===
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| − | '''Goatse.cx''',<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/godhands.asp "The Hands of God"], snopes.com.</ref> was one of the best-known shock sites that existed, featuring an image, <tt>hello.jpg</tt>, of a man stretching his [[anus]] with his hands. This same image was formerly called the "shock3r" , and has been featured on various hacked sites. The link to these sites was primarily spread through [[IRC]].
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| − | The original domain ''goatse.cx'' was pointed to ''www.blackraven.cx'' (masked in an [[HTML frame]]) by the [[Network Information Centre|NIC]] [[.cx]] authority in January 2004, but several mirrors sites are currently up and running hosting the original content<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040109213953/http://goatse.cx/ Archive.org's archived copy of the pages accessible through the domain goatse.cx before it was pointed to http://www.blackraven.cx/]</ref> (including ''goatse.ch'', ''goatse.fr'', as well as ''goatse.cz'' which also manages to preserve some of the original [[phonetic]] appeal).
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| − | ===Tubgirl.com===
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| − | '''Tubgirl.com''' was a redirect to a picture, <tt>tubgirl.jpg</tt>, containing a masked, naked woman lying in a [[bathtub]], buttocks raised with her legs over her head, projecting a fountain of orange/yellow liquid from her anus onto her face. Before the launch of tubgirl.com, this image was featured in a [[rotten.com]] story "Fecal Japan"<ref name=fecaljapan>http://web.archive.org/web/20021004051657/vatican.rotten.com/fecaljapan/</ref> claiming that the subject matter is allegedly popular in [[Japan]]. The image displayed on tubgirl.com is marked as having been previously posted on Consumption Junction. The URL address www.tubgirl.com now redirects to Consumption Junction, and displays the image with a "rate me" box, where viewers can rate the image from 1 to 10.
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| − | ===BallSack.org===
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| − | '''Ballsack.org''' Is one of the largest collections of disturbing images/videos on the internet. The website features an open directory with over 1500 files and has been known for it's wide variety of content. All of the content is either submitted by staff or anonymously (email).
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| − | ===Ogrish.com===
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| − | '''Ogrish.com''' was a shock site that showed pictures of domestic incidents such as [[car crashes]], [[murders]], and other accidents. It also hosted images from the [[Iraq War]], other conflicts, and acts of [[Terrorism|terror]]. Due to the nature of the content of Ogrish.com, it had been banned in Germany.
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| − | <ref name="Ban">{{cite web | last = McCullagh | first = Declan | date = [[February 3]] [[2003]] | url = http://news.com.com/German+registrar+bans+Web+site/2100-1023_3-984248.html | title = German registrar bans Web site | work = [[CNET News.com]] | accessdate = 2007-05-01 }}</ref>
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| − | The media hosted on Ogrish.com was, according to the manager of the site Dan Klinker, retrieved by the sites staff, or was submitted freelance by emergency workers and others who had access to such media. Ogrish.com used [[scripts]] that monitored [[Islamic extremist terrorism|jihadist]] websites for uploads of videos and images, and also crawled the internet for footage. <ref name="Shock and gore1">{{cite web | last = Harkin | first = James | date = [[January 13]] [[2006]] | url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1373c930-8325-11da-ac1f-0000779e2340.html | title = Shock and gore | work = [[Financial Times]] | accessdate = 2007-05-01 }}</ref>
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| − | Examples of popular material on the site included the decapitation of American contractor [[Nick Berg]], which had been downloaded fifteen million times, the execution of a Russian soldier in Chechnya, and the murder of [[Wall Street Journal]] reporter [[Daniel Pearl]]. According to the site, average daily hits ranged in the low hundred thousand, and sometimes rose to 750,000 on a news day.
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| − | <ref name="Shock and gore2">{{cite web | last = Harkin | first = James | date = [[January 13]] [[2006]] | url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1373c930-8325-11da-ac1f-0000779e2340.html | title = Shock and gore | work = [[Financial Times]] | accessdate = 2007-05-01 }}</ref>
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| − | ==Other shock sites==
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| − | * One item on [[Rotten.com]] contains an image of a [[Scarlet Macaw]] perched on a man's erect penis. The page contains a note from a [[Slashdot]] reader asking that the image be relocated (if not removed) because [[Slashdot trolling phenomena|Slashdot trolls]] are using hyperlinks to send unsuspecting users there.<ref>[http://smoke.rotten.com/bird Letter from Slashdot.org], (along with the picture).</ref> The page also mentions a crude [[ASCII art]] version, which appears from time to time on Slashdot.
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| − | ==Former shock sites==
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| − | * '''Rustina.org''' contained a falsified picture of [[Rusty Foster]]'s wife having sex with another man, as well as a fictional account of the story behind the picture. It is the picture that caused Rusty to temporarily shut down new user sign ups on his website, [[Kuro5hin]].<ref>[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/24/0502/96199 Rusty announces closure of new user sign ups on Kuro5hin due to offensive picture]</ref> The site was taken down as of [[December 2]], [[2006]].{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
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| − | *'''ShrewsburyCollege.co.uk''' was a site containing a photograph of two men, one being anally penetrated by the other with what appeared to be a bicycle pump. In addition, both were covered in feces. The name of the site was taken from the [[Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology]], which used to be known by the acronym SCAT. The website has now been replaced by the actual Shrewsbury College website. This shock site was perhaps the only one to have appeared in a print newspaper, featuring in a front-page article of the [[Shrewsbury Chronicle]] on [[8 December]] [[2005]]. In the aforementioned article, the MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, [[Daniel Kawczynski]], mentioned that the site was brought to his attention by a fellow [[Member of Parliament]]. The visitor logs of what are presumably the reporter that wrote the story, and Kawczynski are available to view online.<ref>[http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5828/scatlog26vg.jpg A visitor from the Midland News Association, which publishes the newspaper]</ref><ref>[http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7905/scatlog18le.jpg A visitor from the Houses of Parliament]</ref>
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| − | ==See also==
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| − | *[[Computer prank]]
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://shocksites.bluwiki.org/ A list of shock sites] from [[BluWiki]]
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