I am fully in agreement with the owner of the site.
I was an admin for a “non-partisan” website and saw the strangest behavior imaginable. Korean seeded users that were like fake news bots or current Twitter bots. People that made up professions/status and people that did nothing but post awful articles then would never comment or defend the troll bombs they threw in the room.
The site got sold, why anyone would buy it I don’t know. However I would fully have endorsed a shut down if we became known for what 8chan is known and used for.
8chan is the online equivalent of 1,000 people shouting fire in a crowded theater and that’s putting it mildly. Online investigations of people may begin with social media but they should really begin there.
I’ll check out 8chan’s food and music groups every now and then, when I think about it.
You support the NYTIMES shutting down random websites based on their value judgments? I don’t care if it’s an Al Qaeda website. We are not going to let the left shut down websites against the will of site owners. That’s an attack on our freedom of speech and the due process protections of our property rights.
And if you reply, “big internet companies can shut down whatever they want because they’re privately owned,” screw you.
You’re more dangerous than 8chan.
You should be shut down.
If abuse of freedom is not allowed, then freedom is not allowed.
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.
First, you suck.
Second, do you think a new platform won’t take it’s place?
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?
A lot of book burners on Freerepublic
That is not true. Since the memes and info exposed the Cabal/DeepState around the world, they have been invaded by every shill in the world. They want to take it out because they are in anger mode and very afraid of their evil deeds being exposed. It’s revenge, pure and simple.
While I check it out, there are gore pics, nude pics, porn and just about every nasty thing you can think of. SMH
Bots are rampant. Not worth going now because of the attacks on the site.
While the users can be colorful, they are not the ones posting that stuff. Out of 751 comments, maybe 40 are actually users with info or questions. Again, they want it taken out before even more of their dirty deeds gets exposed. The whole world, including the evil doers and MSM is in there to see what users have discovered.
It should not be taken down. Free speech, etc. Imagine if those shills showed up here on FR.
A few have because I recognize their patterns, but mostly the bad shills get taken out immediately here, and the shills “behave” for the most part, only subtley posting disinfo and “concern/feelings” nonsense. There, no one is moderating constantly, so some of it stays up for awhile until a BV shows up.
Just fyi.
What would think if someone came to Free Republic and posted a manifesto and then went on a shooting spree. Would you think that Free Republic should be shut down?
“Cloudflare is cutting off 8chan’s access to its protection services after all, a big reversal from earlier in the day.”