On Sunday, following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the founder of 8chan, where various shooters have posted their intention to harm others, called on the people who currently run it to shut it down.
Fredrick Brennan, 25, the software developer who started 8chan in 2013 as a “free speech friendly 4chan alternative,” as he told The New York Times, stated, “Shut the site down. It’s not doing the world any good. It’s a complete negative to everybody except the users that are there. And you know what? It’s a negative to them, too. They just don’t realize it.”
The Times reported of Brennan’s creation of the site, “He was upset that 4chan had become too restrictive, and he envisioned a site where any legal speech would be welcome, no matter how toxic. The site remained on the fringes until 2014, when some supporters of GamerGate — a loose reactionary collection of anti-feminist video gamers — flocked to 8chan after being kicked off 4chan.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, told the Times, “8chan is almost like a bulletin board where the worst offenders go to share their terrible ideas. It’s become a sounding board where people share ideas, and where these kinds of ideologies are amplified and expanded on, and ultimately, people are radicalized as a result.”
The El Paso shooter allegedly uploaded a manifesto delineating the motives for his intended actions shortly before the shooting, according to The Daily Mail, which added, “The post’s author encouraged users on the 8chan politics board, /pol/, to disseminate the contents of the manifesto.”
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This has gotten ridiculous. No one at work today even mentioned it. Are we that hardened to this ? If hijackers took down two skyscrapers people would be teary eyed flag waving. Schools, Churches , Concerts what next sitting ducks in nursing homes and people waiting in the ER. It is way beyond acceptable human and American behavior and people are having debates over who and guns etc. We have always had guns. We have always had crazy people and fringe characters. What is going on here ? I mean really going on.
But ANTIFA sites are still UP ??????????????
NOW you have AHOLE Obama chiming in on Trump ? This coming from a guy WHO STARTED the Race issue in AMERICA paid for by SOROS He backed thugs with guns attacking police and at the end of the Investigation proved 99% of police shootings were JUSTIFIED.
It would be STUPID to shut this down. Learn from it, not eliminate it.These social media sites are great for watching for potential nut jobs and absolutely more effective than banning weapons to stop the killing.
I am well retired but still contract as a consult. You would not believe how many Fed and Defense agencies I visit and they are having " active shooter " lock downs and drills and these places are not Wal-Mart they are often protected by military personal and know and are prepared for threats. It's not Mayberry any more folks.
This article is purposeful dis-information, the owner of 8chan did not shut it down, the severs go threw bitmitigate which was deplatformed...it was deplatformed because it supports free speech. The deepstate and all its communist are trying to shut down communications between Q and the public, they are very much against free speech, especially when their trying to push a narrative like: its Trumps fault, shooter was a republican and Q supporter. I expect bitmitigate was threatened or likely paid-off to deplatform 8chan.
Of course, FBI refuses to call them “terrorists”
Obama needs to be charged with treason!
"I am well retired but still contract as a consult."
I don't consult but worked in Intel for over 50years. Those that consult after leaving are most lobbyist types that I never pay attention to because they are stale the day after they leave service. Those that are WELL retired probably are being paid too much. Nothing to brag about but I suppose it helps the ego.
Exactly, other than the idiot posters it has been a very informative site that teaches us to research for ourselves and not blindly following the BS the MSM are feeding us, I for one followed it faithfully.
Exactly!
The site was shut down on August 5, 2019 after the network infrastructure provider Cloudflare took down their CDN service and Voxility, a web services company that rented servers to the site's hosting provider, also took their servers down.
Heard Obama was critizing Trump over the recent shootings. Let's not forget the guns his attorney general Holder gave that ended up in the drug cartels hands and we learned later an US BORDER patrol officer was killed with one of those guns Holder gave to them. Okay Obama - how did you handled gun control. You Hollywood wantabe.
Obama. We knew, yes, yes. For an eternity, "they" (you know who)! Pacified the ''populace"" with gladiators, games, (NFL?) And the opiates of the masses. Distracted we were. Our Greatest Leader, yes, Mr President Donald ""J"" Trump, showed them (Swamp( )NWO globalist demons) to the World! We said NO! The United Kingdom said NO! The Hunagary people and Pollish said NO! The hallway must be dusted, yes! Time for the globulists to be outed (Merkle, Pelosi- malfunctioning again?, Clinton- Uranium One?) They are the evil empire (Reagan, yes ! He saw the truth!) We must say no !!!
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