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Anonymous ID: 165f51 Jan. 28, 2024, 3:50 p.m. No.20320548   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>https://twitter.com/thejimwatkins/status/1751733731659042927

 

HERE IS THE TEXT OF THE LETTER SENT TO JIM WATKINS ON AUGUST 6, 2019:

 

Dear Mr. Watkins:

 

As the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, we write in the wake of the August 3. 2019 domestic terrorist attack in El Paso. Texas. This attack resulted in the needless deaths of 22 people and the senseless wounding of 24 others.

 

According to media reports, the killer wrote a manifesto describing his anti-immigrant, white supremacist beliefs and appears to have posted it to your website, 8chan, minutes prior to the shooting.

 

Regrettably, this is at least the third act of white supremacist extremist violence linked to your website this year. In April, the killer who murdered one Jewish worshiper and wounded three others at a synagogue in Poway. California, appears to have posted an anti-Semitic and racist open letter on 8chan shortly before carrying out the mass shooting/' In March, the killer who murdered 51 Muslim worshipers and wounded 49 more at two mosques in Christchurch. New Zealand, appears to have posted on 8chan a 74-pagc manifesto outlining his racist, white supremacist, anti-immigrant beliefs, as well as a link to a Facebook livestream of the massacre.'

 

On August 5. 2019. your network «nice provider. Cloudflare, called 8chan a "cesspool of hate" before suspending it. Fredrick Brennan, 8chan's founder, called the site “a complete negative to every body except the users that arc there." and called for 8chan to be shut down.'

 

Experts have described 8chan as a platform for amplifying of extremist views, leading to the radicalization of its users/’

 

Americans deserve to know what, if anything, you as the owner and operator, are doing to address the proliferation of extremist content on 8chan.

 

To that end. the Committee on Homeland Security respectfully requests your presence to provide testimony regarding 8chan‘s efforts to investigate and mitigate the proliferation of extremist content, including white supremacist extremist content, on your website.

 

Please provide the Committee with current physical contact information for you or your authorized representative in the United Slates so that you can receive communications from the Comminee. The Committee can be reached at chs.inbax@mail.housc.gov.