What about those communities? I'm sure they can stay on 8chan, or find somewhere else?

I'd not say the recent far-right terrorism is just from some individual psychopaths with no value for human life. There's a ton of far-right/alt-right ideas out there, on platforms like 8chan, which actively demonizes certain groups of people. It's not like these shootings are just crazy people who just want to kill people at random; they want to kill the people they see as the "enemy".

>What about those communities? I'm sure they can stay on 8chan, or find somewhere else?

Then what’s different about extremist communities?

I don't understand what you mean. Presumably, they will also either continue using 8chan or find somewhere else?

Exactly.

You're saying that as if you have made a point, but I still don't understand what you mean. Could you explain what your actual point is?

Well, if far right terrorists can just stay or find another place, then how is Cloudflare’s action suppressing them? You seem to be defending their action but at the same time implying it has no effect.

> doing virtually nothing to limit the ability of psychopathic losers to kill large numbers of people

Deplatforming 8chan isn't about limiting the ability of these people to kill large numbers (that would require effective gun control) - it's about removing a source of provocation, radicalisation, cheering, etc. for them both before and after.

A message board is not a source of any of those things. 8chan does not have a super-god who removes comments they don't like, there is no inherent leaning in the structure of the website. Any platform is liable to this kind of behavior, so what exactly does this achieve? If it isn't Cloudflare, it's self-hosted. If it isn't 8chan, it's Twitter, it's Facebook. There is no shortage of places where radicals could go to let their beliefs fester. What about removing hosting for 8chan resolves anything that you've mentioned?

What about them? They can move to other chans, plenty of which survive and thrive without heaps of nazis. If the owners of 8ch wanted to get rid of the nazis, then they wouldn't be coming under DDOS attack in about 5 minutes.

I assume it's a reference to what inevitably happens to any busy service that no longer has a CDN soaking a significant fraction of its traffic.

Presumably posted shortly before midnight, PDT.

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Thank you for the reality check. It truely is hard to maintain your mental poise during prolonged imageboard exposure!

Time to shame-delete this account.