It is the latest internet services firm to cut ties with the far-right forum after Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and security firm, said it would no longer provide its services to 8chan from Monday.
and would no longer provide protection from distributed denial of service . It said the extremist-linked platform had “repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate.” A number of mass shooters have posted hate-filled letters to the site before carrying out killings.
Far-right-linked firms Epik and Anonymize are said to be running 8chan’s domain registration and protection, respectively,. Both companies are owned by Robert Monster, who is perhaps best-known for helping the white supremacist social media site Gab get back online after it was kicked off GoDaddy. The man suspected in the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue last October had posted a: Tucows, a Toronto-headquartered internet services company, was established in Michigan in 1993.
8chan, founded in 2013 by Brennan, was billed as a utopia of free speech and a response to the message board 4chan, which he believed had become too restrictive. 8chan has hosted extremist manifestos on its platform, including that of the gunman who killed 50 people in in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, and another who targeted a synagogue in California in April. 8chan is now owned by Jim Watkins.
Brennan, 25, said the site he founded but no longer owns was “not doing the world any good. It’s a complete negative to everybody except the users that are there. And you know what? It’s a negative to them, too. They just don’t realize it,” the
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