There are other DDOS protection services, so this doesn't mean 8chan is going offline for good. But the ban, which kicks in at midnight tonight, will make it harder to keep the site online in the short term.
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Breaking: Cloudflare CEO @eastdakota tells me the company is cutting off 8chan's access to its DDOS protection service after all, a big reversal from earlier in the day. Story update TK.
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Cloudflare debated what to do about 8chan all day. Here is (part of)
@eastdakota's rationale for banning the site, in the end. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html …pic.twitter.com/9pIeUY65yK
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There's a big, interesting debate here about which layers of the internet should be responsible for banning extreme content. Everyone (mostly) agrees ISPs like Comcast shouldn't. Everyone (mostly) agrees social networks like Facebook should. Cloudflare is somewhere in the middle.
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it takes something as tragic as El Paso to finally make them do something.
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It wasnt El Paso. It took 3 in a week.
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That's a lot of deaths before someone realizes he should have done something sooner...
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Reminds me of this pic I took in Philadelphia.pic.twitter.com/QJrP8sXSRo
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Not an easy call. There are tough questions to be asked, slippery slope, what is hate speech, etc. But this is the right call. Nazis should be denied any legitimate platform. There is no way to deny someone a platform on the internet, but they don't need assists from tech giants.
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Easy call. There is no law stating a private company must accomodate them.
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But 8chan isn't a person, its merely a forum, a tool. Dropping 8chan because of a few individuals acting badly is using a sledgehammer to do brain surgery. Its ineffective.
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Doing nothing is worse. If it prevents one life being taken it's worth it.
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Blame the medium and not the shooter. Typical response by the left.
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Oh don’t worry, I blame both.
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If it were video games instead of 8chan, would you say the same thing?
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Their protection from hackers taking their site down expires tonight.
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Fuck yes. People have been tweeting @ cloudflare. I guess media pressure works after all.
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Mob rules.
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Why do people think this is a good thing? It seems like another first amendment violation to me.
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