And just like that, 8Chan gets pulled offline by big tech because the El Paso terrorist’s manifesto first appeared on their servers. 8chan exists for many other reasons and purposes. The El Paso terrorist’s manifesto shouldn’t get the site pulled down. The manifesto made it to all popular social media sites, yet nothing happens to them.
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Controversial online forum 8chan is offline after Internet services company Cloudflare pulled its support for the site in the wake of the horrific El Paso mass shooting that left 22 people dead and two dozen injured.
Police are investigating commentary posted on 8chan that is believed to have been written by the suspect in the shooting Saturday at an El Paso Walmart.
Cloudflare, which provides services that protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks, pulled its support for 8chan at 3 a.m. ET Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince described 8chan as “a cesspool of hate.”
“The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies. In the case of the El Paso shooting, the suspected terrorist gunman appears to have been inspired by the forum website known as 8chan,” he explained, in the post. “Based on evidence we’ve seen, it appears that he posted a screed to the site immediately before beginning his terrifying attack on the El Paso Walmart killing 20 people.”
The first sentence of the online rant posted on the 8chan message board expressed support for the man accused of killing 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in March after posting a 74-page document promoting a white supremacist conspiracy theory called “the great replacement.”