By Adam Rosenberg2019-08-04 20:43:34 UTC
There is no reasonable argument in 2019 for 8chan's continued existence on the internet.
Just look at the recent history. QAnon, an alarming and deeply absurd conspiracy theory, blew up there. When reports surfaced in 2018 that Louisiana police possessed a "full list of antifa" doc — actually just the names of anti-Trumpers scraped from petitions and Facebook events — 8chan was found to be hosting the same list.
Then there are the mass shootings. The angry, hateful men allegedly behind the 2019 shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand; Poway, California; and, most recently, El Paso, Texas all used the site to promote their activities. The El Paso suspect apparently shared an entire, twisted manifesto.
This sums it up pretty succinctly:
The shooters manifesto includes “send them back” and “fake news”.Any Republican patriots in Congress who will speak up now? Ask the President to stop the talk that divides us? Anyone?
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) August 4, 2019
He drew directly from the Donald Trump lexicon, employing the modern language of hate. The four-page screed was posted on 8chan about an hour before his alleged act of domestic terrorism that left 20 dead and 26 wounded as of Sunday morning.
This has happened multiple times now that we know of. The Christchurch shooter, who allegedly killed 51 and injured 50 more in his attack on a mosque, launched a video livestream minutes before the attack that he shared on 8chan (where it was t ..
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