The New Zealand terror attack shooter used 8chan to advertise a live stream of the atrocity. But what is 8chan and what can be done about it?
Share to twitterAmbulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019. On Friday, a man murdered 49 people in Christchurch, New Zealand. He targeted Muslims at two mosques in the city in what’s been deemed a terrorist attack, one of the most horrific acts of violence the country has ever seen.
Long known as a haven for extremist, right-wing thought, and a wilder version of the already unruly 4Chan, the 8chan forum has courted controversy in the past. In 2015, for instance, users of the fringe site started a campaign to boycottbecause it had black and female leads. In the same year, child pornography appeared on 8chan, leading Google to delist it. Channels that appear to advertise child-abuse material remain live on the site today.
Website moderators are the ones who are there to remove content, not Cloudflare, she added. “We're the Fedex of the internet, passing messages on, not looking inside the boxes,” she explained. “While this may make it harder for investigators to discover, it will also make it harder for folks susceptible to radicalization to find,” Pugh told. “Discussion of ‘traitors,’ ‘invaders,’ and needing to do something ‘in real life,’ or ‘IRL,’ are the watchwords for investigators trying to find a particular needle, not in a haystack, but in a stack of needles," he added.
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