"8chan", the controversial forum where terrorists anticipate their massacres | Chronic

The online forum "8chan", used by the perpetrators of mbadacres such as the recent in El Paso (United States) and Christchurch (New Zealand) to broadcast their racist "manifestos", was disconnected from the web after CloudFlare, the company that provided him with cybersecurity services, would terminate the contract.

"8chan has been proven time and time again to be a black hotbed of hate", said the California company justifying the unilateral termination of the cybersecurity service at the forum in which, he said, "the alleged terrorist" of El Paso "seems to have been inspired".

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CloudFlare is a company that provides website defense applications and services against cyber attacks. After the loss of this protection, the administrators of 8chan decided to disconnect the platform.

"According to the evidence we saw, it would appear that he issued a manifesto on the site immediately before the start of his terrifying attack on the Walmart of El Paso, causing 20 deaths. "., CloudFlare said in a statement posted on its website, about the mbadacre perpetrated Saturday by the 21-year-old identified as Patrick Crusius.

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"Unfortunately, it is not an isolated incident – almost the same thing happened at 8chan before the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand." 39; El Paso made specific reference to the Christchurch incident and appears to have been inspired by the long, unmoderated discussions that took place at 8chan that glorified the previous mbadacre "keep on going.

The statement also referred to the shooting that occurred at the end of April in the Poway Synagogue, California, where the alleged perpetrator had published in 8chan "open letter" full of hatred

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"We do not take this decision lightly", CloudFlare said, and continued: "We reluctantly tolerate content that we deem objectionable, but we distinguish between platforms that have shown that they directly inspired tragic events and that were inherently illegal." 8chan has crossed this line. we will no longer be allowed to use our services. ".

Despite the loss of service, the administrator of 8chans, quoted by the BBC, announced that he would transfer the platform to another computer protection company, BitMitigate.

What is 8chan?

Also called Infinite Chan, he was born of a 4chan division, a forum known to be one of the origins of Anonymous (and also to allow the publication of controversial content).

Fredrick Brennan He created 8chan in 2013 because he felt 4chan was becoming more authoritarian and was erasing more member updates. This new forum had only one rule, at least as published on its website: "Do not post, request or link illegal content in the United States and do not create threads to publish or distribute this content".

The rule has not always been respected: in August 2015, Google has temporarily excluded from his research suspicious content of pedophilia. But before its users have had time to be controversial: the harbadment campaign of women journalists and video game developers known as Gamergate became so aggressive that it was forbidden to talk about the issue. 4chan, he explains. Angela Nagle in his book Death to the Normies. The consequence has been that many users have turned to 8chan to continue this harbadment.

As published by The New York TimesSince then, the web has become the refuge of those who have been expelled from other sites for sharing all kinds of theories of racist and badist conspiracy.

In March 2019, the author of the attack on two mosques in New Zealand published his manifesto on the forum: 75 pages expressing his hatred of immigrants and his admiration for American extremists, seemingly oblivious to the contradiction The first Europeans will arrive in their country only in the 16th century. He killed 51 people.

In April, the Poway Synagogue was attacked. One woman died and three others were injured. The murderer had also warned against his intentions by extolling his New Zealand predecessor and with a similar message regarding racist content.