Cloudflare leaves 8chan, "the sewer of hate" that could have inspired the Texas Massacre

Cloudflare, an American Internet company that helps websites protect and distribute content, announced that it would no longer offer its services to 8chan site after the man who had perpetrated a mbad shot in El Paso, Texas, would have been inspired by forum users.

It is currently not possible to access the website. The forum tweeted Monday morning: "There could be some free time in the next 24 to 48 hours, the time to find a solution."

Some of you may have read the @Cloudflare news already. They give up 8chan. https://t.co/FQJrv9wzvn
We may find a solution in the next 24 to 48 hours, so that we can find a solution (including our email, so that compliance with requests from law enforcement could be affected) .

– 8chan (8ch.net) (@infinitechan) August 5, 2019

In a hard post posted on the company's blog, Cloudflare's top executive, Matthew Prince, badped 8chan and tagged the page "sewer of hate." The shooting last weekend was preceded by a manifesto issued by March 8, allegedly attributed to the attacker. This year, the terrorist attacks in Christchurch (New Zealand) and Poway (California) have also been linked to talks held at 8chan.

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Prince's statement comes at a time when Cloudflare is planning an initial public offering later this year. The San Francisco-based company provides website owners with technical, performance, and security services, including protection against denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Without your help, 8chan can become more vulnerable to such brute force methods.

"The justification is simple: they proved that they were illegal and that this illegality caused many tragic deaths"Prince explained in the blog.

The founder of 8chan, Fredrick Brennan, who no longer manages the forum, joined these comments Sunday in an interview called "close the site". Although Prince Brennan and Cloudflare have already pleaded for freedom of expression for the creation and maintenance of marginal online communities, Brennan said that 8chan "offers nothing good to the world". This is completely negative for everyone except for the users who are there. "

The CEO of Cloudflare has called for a broader discussion on the spread of hate messages on the Internet following two mbadive shootings in the United States this weekend, which have left about 30 dead.

"By taking this step," wrote Prince, "we have solved our own problem, but we have not solved the problem of the Internet."