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8chan has been shut down. [READ STAFF POST]

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    • Tahnit

    Tahnit

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    Oct 25, 2017
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    Seems the hosting company had enough. They also pulled dailystormer and others.

    This is a great day.

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    vastag said:
    A quick recap:
    • 8chan: a cesspool of neo-nazis, white supremacists, anti-semitism and pedophiles. Owned by Jim Watkins and administered by this guy.
    • NT Technologies: A company created by Jim Watkins to manage 8chan.
    • Cloudfare: a DDoS mitigation company. Some time ago dropped support for The Daily Stormer after a mass-shooting. The CEO said he would never do it again because "muh free speech". They dropped 8chan because they are going public in a couple of months and bad press is not good for an IPO.
    • Bitmitigate: another DDoS mitigation company, they are the replacemant for Cloudfare. They are owned by Epik.
    • Epik: a service provider, owned by a known white-supremacist and anti-semitic PoS, Robert Monster. They started hosting 8chan. They don't own any meaningful infrastructure, relying on Voxility to offer their services. They also host Gab and The Daily Stormer. This fine people are the management team. I'm sure that the neo-nazis in Gab and The Daily Stormer would love to purge a couple of them.
    • Voxility: A not so big company offering cloud services. Panicked after the mentions on twitter started to blow-up. They didn't see to have a problem with offering their infrastructure to Gab and The Daily Stormer before. They stopped working with Epik after all the publicity.
    Lets see where all those sites end now, there are a lot of PoS out there ready to host them.
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    • Ryu

    Ryu

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    Oct 25, 2017
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    Finally.. how were they even able to look away for such a long time. Good on them though.
     
    BeeDog

    BeeDog

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    Oct 26, 2017
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    Deleted member 36578

    Dec 21, 2017
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    Good. I wonder where all of its frequenters will run off to.
     
    iareharSon

    iareharSon

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    Oct 30, 2017
    8,940
    Better late than never but in the future, it'd be nice if these tech companies didn't react multiple tragedies too late.
     
    jelly

    jelly

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    Oct 26, 2017
    33,841
    Good but then they'll just find another place signalled by Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, 4chan etc. also isn't 4chan a cesspool too?
     
    Christian

    Christian

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    Oct 25, 2017
    9,636
    harbl-kun said:
    These chan sites always come back in some form tho.
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    Every time they come back, there are less people using them. People that might've only casually stumbled onto them aren't pulled back with each iteration, and the numbers keep dwindling and dwindling. Just keep pulling them down. You're never gonna eliminate the problem, but you damn sure make it as hard as possible for these jerkholes to congregate and propagate their bullshit.
     
    Omega.X

    Omega.X

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    Oct 28, 2017
    582
    That will just rile them up even more. Cut the head off the hydra and watch two more grow. The constant media frenzy and coverage is only inspiring them and creating a civil war in the US.
     
    Netherscourge

    Netherscourge

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    Oct 25, 2017
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    Fuck Epik for allowing this shit to continue.

    I hope they are run out of business.

    You gotta be some piece of shit to host Gab, Daily Stormer and 8chan.
     
    Kcannon

    Kcannon

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    Oct 30, 2017
    5,662
    harbl-kun said:
    These chan sites always come back in some form tho.
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    They will, but it's unlikely they will be as big or accessible since there was no time to organize an exodus.

    Alternatively, they will just move to the big, mainstream ones. Will be almost impossible to replicate the original sites' cesspool though.
     
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