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5th August 2019 13:20
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Cloudflare drops 8chan
Now here's a dilemma....free speech or ?
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Cloudflare drops 8chan as a client after mass shootings, calling it ‘a cesspool of hate’
Published: Aug 4, 2019 10:51 p.m. ET
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cl...=mw_latestnews
Network provider’s CEO says it had to act in internet’s best interest
The gunman who killed 20 people Saturday in El Paso, Texas, posted a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto on 8chan shortly before his attack.
On Sunday, Fredrick Brennan, who created 8chan but has since disavowed it, called for its owner — Nevada-based N.T. Technology — to “do the world a favor” and shut down the anonymous, unmoderated message board.
“Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident,” Prince said in the Cloudflare blog post. “Nearly the same thing happened on 8chan before the terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. . . . 8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate.”
Cloudflare made a similar move in 2017, dropping the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer as a client. Prince wrote Sunday that he realized the move was unlikely to keep 8chan off the internet, as a Cloudflare competitor will likely take its place. “They are no longer Cloudflare’s problem, but they remain the Internet’s problem,” he said.
Separately, Tucows Inc., the company that controls 8chan’s domain-name registration, said it had no plans to block the site, according to the New York Times
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5th August 2019 13:43
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Re: Cloudflare drops 8chan
Bill Ryan as told us of behavior when Avalon first started, how disgusting a was. Disrespect, hate, bulling .. he had to shut it down and start over again. 8chan has no mod's it's a free for all, and now a board for murders to post their manifesto's. How does one regulate it, or if at all, without being accused of censorship. Anyone?
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5th August 2019 13:57
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