The infamous messageboard 8chan responsible for spreading hateful content against minorities and people of color has been forced to go offline after hosting company Voxility booted the site off from its server. Voxility’s decision came right after the website security firm Cloudflare announced cutting off its services for 8chan.
Cloudflare’s decision came hours after it was reported that 8chan has been linked to three recent mass shootings in the United States. 8chan, which has been used by white nationalists to spread hateful content and propaganda then moved to Epik hosting before being removed by the company within a few hours.
However, Stanford researcher Alex Stamos revealed in a tweet that Epik rents Voxility’s servers.
In case you were wondering, it looks like the new host of 8chan and Daily Stormer will effectively be @voxility. It looks like Epik/Bitmitigate owns very little of their own hardware and instead rents Voxility's servers and AS.https://t.co/K3NXyVYcUThttps://t.co/zC0csJpQZp pic.twitter.com/pml4bL0kUU
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) August 5, 2019
After the tweet went viral Voxility responded by confirming that “the 3rd party hoster is blocked completely.”
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