Why Banning 8chan Was So Hard for Cloudflare: ‘No…
Sorry, but this is not be a difficult moral decision. 8chan supports the spread of hate and calls to violence. That’s not only “illegal” but morally reprehensible pan-culturally. This is not equivalent to a Middle Eastern gov’t banning homosexuality and then calling for the plug to be pulled by the infrastructure providers. Glad they did it but it should not take this kind of incident to prompt it. All this hand wringing…
8chan, the anonymous message board where the man accused of carrying out the El Paso massacre posted his manifesto, went offline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/technology/8chan-cloudflare-el-paso.html
The man most responsible for the outage wasn’t Jim Watkins, 8chan’s owner, or his son Ronald, the message board’s administrator.
Instead, the decision to take 8chan offline, at least temporarily, fell largely to Matthew Prince, the chief executive of the little-known San Francisco company Cloudflare.