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8chan Is a Megaphone for Gunmen. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creator.
New York Times ^ | Aug. 4, 2019 | Kevin Roose

Posted on 08/04/2019 4:48:57 PM PDT by miami33

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To: miami33

Why don’t the police monitor the site to see what’s up?


21 posted on 08/04/2019 5:16:03 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

NYT’s refusal to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election has led to a climate of anarchy. shut it down.

ditto for all FakeNewsMSM who likewise have refused to accept Donald Trump is the duly elected President of the United States.


22 posted on 08/04/2019 5:21:48 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: miami33

Sounds like a good place to stay away from.


23 posted on 08/04/2019 5:23:24 PM PDT by McGruff (If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Plenty of folks never heard of 8chan until the Q thing came out.

The timing of the NYT suddenly wanting to shut them down is no accident.


24 posted on 08/04/2019 5:26:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I’m saying if it WAS mine I would shut it down not that it should be by outside forces.

He no longer has control his opinion is moot.


25 posted on 08/04/2019 5:27:04 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

I am reading 8chan mods tagged the FBI in the post...

NBC News’ Pete Williams is reporting that the FBI identified the El Paso shooter from the 8chan post minutes before the attack, but was too late to prevent the attack.

The FBI was already on it.

https://twitter.com/AhmedBaba_/status/1157794176194482177

Only ONE reason they want 8chan shut down and I can’t mention it here.


26 posted on 08/04/2019 5:31:13 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: unread

Philly, Baltimore, DC, Little Rock, Gary...


27 posted on 08/04/2019 5:35:07 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

First, you suck.

Second, do you think a new platform won’t take it’s place?


28 posted on 08/04/2019 5:37:12 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: FatherofFive
Why don’t the police monitor the site to see what’s up?

Only very large agencies (think State) can afford to staff an intelligence unit full time...minimum of 8 officers to cover all shifts factoring court time and vacations.

At this hour of a Sunday most small to mid size agencies are swamped with "custody issue" calls because Dad didn't show up at exactly 5:00 PM per the joint custody agreement. Or vice versa.

29 posted on 08/04/2019 5:46:09 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: miami33

So now they’re using mass shootings to go after the First and Second Amendments at the same time (and the Fourth, since the FBI wants to step up its power to monitor “potential” shooters on social media before they commit crimes).


30 posted on 08/04/2019 5:50:59 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: EEGator

Of course something will take its place but I would shut it down like a nuisance bar.


31 posted on 08/04/2019 5:51:58 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

I would monitor it because they’re already there. Why scatter them to the wind?


32 posted on 08/04/2019 5:54:30 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

So QAnon is in the same cross hairs in your mind, makes one wonder where you are really coming from.

I am on there regularly and the ONLY ones who promote violence are shills, basically like the Trolls that appear here to slide threads and disrupt thing as they are scared to death their little dream is going down...

It is not a regular item there and no one I see dogpiles on crap like that

So I look at your comment and laugh

Truly, I see what you did there...


33 posted on 08/04/2019 6:04:56 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

“...they should really begin there.”

And where would you suggest they end?


34 posted on 08/04/2019 6:14:36 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: Calvin Locke

What’s weird is, I’ve tried to lurk 8chan, just to see what the fuss is about.
I can’t even get on it, not once. I’m locked out or something.
Maybe I’m too scary for them.
Wooooo.


35 posted on 08/04/2019 6:21:17 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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Try 4chan’s /pol/ instead
I don’t like 8chan because it divides the political discourse between right and left. (/pol/ and /leftypol/
4chan allows them to fight in the same board. While it can be highly frustrating, it is more interesting and you DEFINITELY get to see what the other side is doing.


36 posted on 08/04/2019 6:29:13 PM PDT by Crazieman (Civil war is near certain now.)
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37 posted on 08/04/2019 6:29:57 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: glasseye
Yep. Freedom - to look or not look.

Words on 4 or 8chan do not have the power to make bad things happen.

Blame them and blame guns and our 2nd Amendment for shootings.

38 posted on 08/04/2019 6:31:40 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: Calvin Locke
I’ll check out 8chan’s food and music groups every now and then, when I think about it.

I tried to access the site by typing "8chan.net" but got a blank screen with the letters "wat" in the upper left-hand corner.

39 posted on 08/04/2019 6:36:00 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: lightman

Only very large agencies (think State) can afford to staff an intelligence unit full time...minimum of 8 officers to cover all shifts factoring court time and vacations.

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And don’t forget the general incompetence of agencies like the FBI. A relative begged the FBI to investigate the twerp who shot up the Florida high school months prior to the shooting. The FBI did nothing.

Same with the Boston Marathon bombing. The Russian federation warned the FBI specifically about the two brothers prior to the bombing. Again, nothing was done.


40 posted on 08/04/2019 6:38:55 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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