Anonymous ID: 4f23d6 Jan. 2, 2023, 4:18 p.m. No.18061718   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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>http://www.australasianscience.com.au/article/science-and-technology/8chans-demise-win-against-hate-could-drive-extremists-dark-web.html

8chan's demise is a win against hate, but could drive extremists to the dark web

The news that 8chan, the far-right online community allegedly home to mass shooting manifestos, has been effectively removed from the internet is cause for celebration, but should also make us pause and consider the implications.

8chan has been linked to three mass shootings so far this year. In March, an account believed to belong to the gunman behind the Christchurch mass shooting posted an 87-page manifesto to the site. And in April, the suspected gunman behind the deadly shooting at a synagogue in California also posted to the site.

Internet security and infrastructure company Cloudflare finally stopped servicing 8chan after it was alleged the El Paso shooting suspect posted a white nationalist rant on the site before killing more than 20 people.

The forum received a brief reprieve when another service, BitMitigate, stepped in before support was once again dropped.

Cloudshare and BitMitigate, the latter albeit briefly, both provided 8chan with protection from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks by activists aiming to shut the site down. BitMitigate, which has also serviced neo-nazi site Daily Stormer since Cloudshare dropped it in 2017, relied on infrastructure service Voxility. It was Voxility that ultimately shutdown 8chan (and Daily Stormer at the same time), removing its services from BitMitigate when 8chanโ€™s move was made known.