Content delivery network service Cloudflare has terminated its service for the image board known as 8chan (although the site remains available through the Tor network), unsurprisingly claiming the “unmoderated” site to be an “inspiration for terrorism” and blaming it for the El Paso shooting rather than the criminal.
Cloudflare has stopped providing services to the 8chan image board, essentially removing the site from the internet by allowing it to suffer DDoS attacks; the site’s notoriously slow Tor service remains online, however.
A company spokesman justified the decision in a recent blog post by labeling the site as an inspiration for terrorism, citing the recent shooting in the Texas city of El Paso, where the gunman was said to have “posted a screed” on the site before commencing his murderous rampage.
The spokesman predictably demonstrated hypocrisy on the matter by stating “Cloudflare is not a government. While we’ve been successful as a company, that does not give us the political legitimacy to make determinations on what content is good and bad”.
It should be noted, however, that the San Francisco-based corporation has had fewer moral qualms about providing services for far deadlier Islamic terrorist organizations such as the Taliban, Hamas and Al-Shabaab. The company has also been accused of providing services for websites affiliated with the Islamic State.
It is likely that the site will return using a different security service provider in the near future.
Welcome to Clown World
All we can do is invest in rubber nose manufacturers. Maybe big shoe makers, too.
Or making your own Internet. Google, Facebook, etc. are all private companies that are free to ditch who or whatever they feel like. Don’t like it? Band together, build a server farm, and make your own Google, Facebook, and Cloudflare and compete with the others.
If you all are right that so many people feel the way you do about life then surely you’ll bury them rather quickly.
Problem is if you’re up against a monopoly, you will have a struggle. Either the new thing stagnates, gets crushed, gets slandered in the media, or bought out.
Dont get me wrong, you’re right that people should create competition. BUT, when the already established companies and corporations do everything they can to crush new start-ups, and not everyone is capable of creating a new competitor, things dont change. It gets to a point where if you defend any companies right to do business with others based on BS like different political views or social values, what happens when your own personal political view makes you an enemy? What happens when things you need to live, are denied to you based on “Well if you dont like it…..”
Dont like it? Start your own site.
Dont like it? Start your own ISP
Dont like it? Start your own internet
Dont like it? make your own Satelites
Dont like it? Start your own Space agency
Dont like it? Make your own currency
Dont like it? Start your own bank
Dont like it? Start your own country
Do. You. See. The. Pattern. Forming. Here?
There was this perfect webcomic that summed this up just like you had said. These censorious idiots are pushing the extremists offline and that only radicalizes them! People have been de-radicalized by having their worldviews exposed to the open internet. There’s a famous case of a woman from the Westboro Baptist Church that denounced that org and walked away from them after opening her mind and having calm rational discussions with people on Twitter. But now, they openly censor anything remotely supporting Republican/Conservative/Christian views and they are fulfilling JFK’s warning “Those that make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
Time to overthrow our current government. Let’s just skip to the last step.
“Dont like it? Start your own country”
There were, in fact, efforts to start micronations but that literally got destroyed by other countries. A literal example of monopolistic reduction of rivals. For example, Sealandia.
Or in the case of cryptocurrencies, the creators convert to USD and run off with everyone’s money.
All the retards don’t even realize what they asking for.
When people sick of the them, they’re the first ones to eat the dirt.
That doesn’t quite work. Your creditcard can even by disabled since it’s provided by a private company. This has happened to those that try to create their own services. How are you going to create everything from scratch if you cant even use a creditcard?
that is impossible were and how are you going to put the wires and get the funds.
You say that, but even “emotionally unplesant pand (ha) ” is beyond censored here along with so many other terms it’s getting absurd.
You can thank the Democrat party for inspiring both of these shooters. 8chan is completely innocent here, as are all the other chans.
And before you blame the President, Obama’s CIA buddy Brennan called it in.
honk honk
I hear the Democrats have a lot of real estate in Clown world as they make up its population.
This is true. Both shooters are their babies.
You can thank the DNC for inspiring both of these shooters. 8chan is completely innocent here, as are all the other chans.
And before you blame the President, Obama’s CIA buddy Brennan called it in.
Publicity stunt by Cloudflare to increase share prices since they’re pushing for IPO next month. Using the whole shooting stuff as a scapegoat. Scumbags.
It’s a dog eat dog world and if you aren’t ready to capitalize on events, good or bad, at a moments notice you aren’t going to get anywhere. Especially as a corporation in a competitive and expanding market. This is the world we live in so you might as well get used to it.
Damn intelligent comments in the comment section? Color me impressed
>retard-tier rationalizations
>intelligent
You deserve your shortbus.
no u
Being a non US citizen I dont care at all, but this just show that territories with too many people that dont hold the same values are prone to end at each other throats soon or later.
Before I shoot up some place I am going to post my manifesto on the wall of the DNC so maybe that will shut them up too! 🙂
Dayton shooter ranted about wanting to kill republicans and said he’d vote for Elizabeth warren. Anything that doesn’t fit the narrative gets memory holed.
That sure as f♥♥k hasn’t been announced on the piss-stream media.
Because people looking around for a convenient twitter account that matched the guys name isn’t how journalism works and even if it was unless there’s a fucking tweet about how he’s going to go murder people so Elizabeth Warren will notice him it isn’t fucking relevant. The El Paso shooters political leanings are brought up because he wrote a fucking manifesto full of Trumpisms about how brown people are invading the country and need to be wiped out.
Its the same instance as that one time a Republican wrote “Leftist” speak all over a school and tried to frame it as a Democrat that did it, vandalizing a school to make everyone hate liberals.
Let me utilize my freeze peach and say someone should slit Trump’s throat already.
When did that happen?
That’s one huge hypocrisy on that guy then, considering that Warren chick is all anti-gun n s♥♥t cuz she’s a lib, and Trump is all pro-gun n s♥♥t cuz the RNA n stuff. Well, a crazy bastard will always be a crazy bastard, no matter what they preach. It’s their actions and what enables them that should matter.
Trump is not pro gun, did you forget about bump stock ban and raising minimum age to buy gun?
You expect a guy running around shooting random people to be living by a moral code?
The difference is that even if that info weren’t unverified and based entirely off of a twitter account there’s no link to WHY he shot up the place.
Compare that to El Paso where the asshole was acting on his own published manifesto that we need to kill all the brown people so the whites can survive.
That’s why they shut 8chan down , because of tiny dicked Nazi pukes like you. Get the f♥♥k out of the USA if you don’t like it . DEATH TO ALL NAZI SCUM
Shut up you tiny hat retard.
OY VEY! How dare doise doirty antisemoites have a different opinion than the one we spoonfeed them through the mainstream media? SHUT IT DOWN
Bold strategy..but 8chan is back up already so all this really did was inconvenienced them slightly..I guess. Funny how mainstream and politicians are always so quick to pass blame away from the shooter/killer just to scapegoat games and guns… but they never ever look at hollywood…interesting since hollywood is 3D glorified violence and gore…Maybe it has to do with who owns
hollo👃wood..could be!
They don’t do anything. Just so you know, Muslims and Extremists are two upside down things. You can try to look at Indonesia. It’s almost the same thing as India, but I have a friend that said “There is a lot of mosques and churches that facing each others without any problems”. Meaning that tolerances are quite much in there, and no violent.
I believe Jakarta Cathedral is an example? Welp, that country is full of garbages though. Just like in India.
You have to be retarded to actually believe that drivel.
Did you pay your jizya this month, dumb goy?
Keep putting the blame on others to get brownie points
= Profit
Keep putting the blame on others to get brownie points
= Keeping the ORANGE MAN BAD & NRA BAD narrative alive.
Hello Comrade. Are you ready for the revolution too?