Stefan Mileschin

Sees it as a cesspool of hate

Cloudflare says it has had enough of protecting the 8chan message board which it says is a “cesspool of hate” and a key player in white terrorist incidents in El Paso, Dayton, and New Zealand mass shootings.

The outfit said that in the case of the El Paso shooting, the terrorist gunman appears to have been inspired by 8chan. He posted a screed to the site immediately before beginning his attack on the El Paso Walmart killing 20 people.

The El Paso shooter specifically referenced the Christchurch incident and appears to have been inspired by the mostly unmoderated discussions on 8chan which glorified the previous massacre. In a separate tragedy, the suspected killer in the Poway, California synagogue shooting also posted a hate-filled “open letter” on 8chan.

Cloudflare said “8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate” and it has had enough of it as a customer.

“The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless, and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths. 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”, a Cloudflare spokesman said.

It was not something that Cloudflare did lightly. “It important to provide our security services broadly to make sure as many users as possible are secure, and thereby making cyberattacks less attractive — regardless of the content of those websites.

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