That means companies like Cloudflare are left to police themselves - in this case it finally stepped up to bat. To Cloudflare's point, the laws governing content on message boards like 8chan and 4chan are particularly lax on the websites themselves, the AP reports. 'Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit.' 'The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths,' reads the blog post. 4chan was created as an English version of 2chan, and is the first English chan, if I recall correctly. Cloudflare noted that 8chan has inspired and provided a sort of haven for several mass shooters, By protecting the message board's online presence, according to the post, Cloudflare played a part in allowing that to happen. Not-So-Lone WolvesĪfter ending service for 8chan, which as of press time is still offline, Cloudflare posted a blog explaining its service.

Knocking one hate-filled site offline won't stop mass shootings or racially-motivated violence, but the site's difficulty in finding a new home could be a sign that the companies that have long protected these forums have had enough. Since then, 8chan has had a rough ride, bouncing to another company before being dropped once more, according to The Associated Press. 1 2 A /pol/ user described it as a proof of concept that an otherwise innocuous message could be used maliciously to spark media backlash. 404Īfter the mass shooter who killed 22 people in Texas last weekend posted his white supremacist manifesto to the online forum 8chan, the web infrastructure company Cloudflare gave the message board the boot. 'It's okay to be white' (IOTBW) is an alt-right slogan which originated as part of an organized trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017.

And Ive been to /b/ on 4chan while they were flooding furries every Friday. There needs to be a bit more information than just one person saying so to include that in the article in my opinion. The forum was a popular stomping ground for mass shooters. In that thread there are numerous other explanations for the word ), and they almost all only appear in that thread and no where else in the web.

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