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8chan booted out by Cloudflare after El Paso shooting

Sunday, August 4, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech 8chan booted out by Cloudflare after El Paso shooting

Popular website infrastructure and security services provider Cloudflare announced it’s terminating service for 8chan in the wake of deadly terrorist attack in El Paso, Texas over the weekend. The 21-year-old suspect in the Walmart mass shooting, which resulted in the deaths of 20 people, is said to have posted a white nationalist rant on the message board favored by many on the far-right before the attack. Calling 8chan a “cesspool of hate,” CEO Matthew Prince wrote that the company will no longer offer protection from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as of midnight Pacific Time. “The rationale is simple: they have…

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