Posted on 08/04/2019 4:48:57 PM PDT by miami33
...Moments before the El Paso shooting on Saturday, a four-page message whose author identified himself as the gunman appeared on 8chan. The person who posted the message encouraged his brothers on the site to spread the contents far and wide.
In recent months, 8chan has become a go-to resource for violent extremists. At least three mass shootings this year including the mosque killings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif. have been announced in advance on the site, often accompanied by racist writings that seem engineered to go viral on the internet....
Mr. Brennan started the online message board as a free speech utopia. But now, 8chan is known as something else: a megaphone for mass shooters, and a recruiting platform for violent white nationalists.
And it has become a focal point for those seeking to disrupt the pathways of online extremism. On Sunday, critics characterized the site as a breeding ground for violence, and some lobbied the sites service providers to get it taken down. And Mr. Brennan, who stopped working with the sites current owner last year, called for it to be taken offline before it leads to further violence....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Why don’t the police monitor the site to see what’s up?
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.
Sounds like a good place to stay away from.
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.
Im 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.
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.
Philly, Baltimore, DC, Little Rock, Gary...
First, you suck.
Second, do you think a new platform won’t take it’s place?
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.
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).
Of course something will take its place but I would shut it down like a nuisance bar.
I would monitor it because they’re already there. Why scatter them to the wind?
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...
“...they should really begin there.”
And where would you suggest they end?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 dont 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.
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