8chan, the anonymous forum that was forced offline in August due to links to the El Paso shooting, is back after rebranding as 8kun, Gizmodo reported yesterday. The site’s new name was announced at the beginning of October before its owners asked existing 8chan board owners to submit requests for their boards to be migrated. […]
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8chan goes offline after hardware provider discontinues service
8chan has gone dark after web services company Voxility banned the site and also banned 8chan’s new host Epik, which had been leasing web space from it. Epik began working with 8chan today after web services giant Cloudflare cut off service, following the latest of at least three mass shootings linked to 8chan. But Stanford […]
Cloudflare cuts off extremist site 8chan after multiple shootings
Cloudflare, an online infrastructure service that helps websites mitigate DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has announced that it will no longer provide security services to the far-right site 8chan following the deadly, mass shooting by a white nationalist in El Paso, Texas. Cloudflare has been reluctant to pull its services from extremist websites, citing free speech issues. […]