8chan Struggles to Find Any Web Support for Forum After Shooting
- Cloudflare and Voxility both cut ties to controversial site
- ‘I think we’ve caused some damage today,’ Voxility says
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The 8chan message board was knocked offline Monday after various internet firms that provided service and support for the controversial site cut ties following a mass shooting that linked it to the alleged killer.
Cloudflare Inc., a U.S. internet firm that helps websites protect and distribute content, terminated its support for Philippines-based 8chan at midnight Sunday. The alleged gunman in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, appeared to post an anti-immigrant screed on the online messaging forum, encouraging others to spread the word. It was the third killing linked to 8chan this year, after the massacre at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a synagogue in Poway, California.