The creator of 8chan has asked the closure of the Web after the attack in Texas

The founder of the 8chan forum, Frederick Brennan, claimed the closure of the site after the publication of a manifesto in which the author of the attack in El Paso (United States) announced his intentions and what he described as mismanagement of its current leaders.

With the attack that took place last Saturday in El Paso, Texas, which killed 20 people, this is the third time the author of a terrorist act publishes a manifesto in 8chan Before committing a murder.

This situation had already occurred during the attack on the Christchurch (New Zealand) mosque, which ended the lives of 51 people and during which many conversations glorified the attack on the platform. , as well as in the synagogue of the cathedral. Chabad Congregation in Poway (USA), which resulted in a death and where an open letter full of hate was issued to announce the terrorist's intentions.

Due to this type of radical and supremacist publications and the fact that 8chan allows misogynistic, racist and extremist comments in its hate forums, the site's founder has again called for the closure of the platform.

Brennan asked her Twitter account to cancel the domain and blamed the state of the forum for the current CEO's mismanagement. He added that "8chan is full of incitement to violence. Mbad murderers use it, but it seems like they're making fun of it, referring to web page managers.

Brennan again published on the subject indicating that the directors of 8chans had temporarily deleted El Paso's publications and that the manifest was still present on the Web, concealed in a private intellectual property belonging to a company called Anonymize.

8chan is a forum created in 2013 in which users start discussions from tables with graphic content such as images. was born as a version of the popular 4chan forum, with the same operation and created in 2003.

8chan abandoned cloudfare

Following the controversial publications on the attack on El Paso and the recurrence of these events, Mathew Prince, CEO of Cloudfare, the Web security company serving 8Chan, announced its disengagement from the platform in a statement where he stated that "we have just sent a notice stating that we are finalizing the contract with 8chan as a customer".

Prince explained that the portal "has turned out to be a lawless place and that the lack of laws has caused many tragic deaths". In addition, he explained that they even tolerated the content that they might find objectionable, but that "imposed limits on platforms that proved to be the cause of tragic events."

By losing the services offered by Cloudfare, 8Chan has not been protected against Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attacks This increases the likelihood that your web page will fall. Brennan also explained that the 2channel page, a platform owned by 8Chan's directors, would be affected by this decision.