Out of those, only the Aftab case predates moot selling 4chan.

That one was done by partyvan crowd who had been driven off from 4chan by that time.

It would’ve been 888chan, 711chan or rockstararmy. Of course, journalists don’t care about such distinctions and will group all of them together as “4chan”.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110902152829/http://partyvan.i...

Blaming 4chan was just a part of the fun, the mods could ban these threads and the people posting in them, but they’d still get the blame.

And FWIW, your other links tend to be more about 8chan than (post-moot) 4chan.