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I’ve seen many references to, but never understood, all these “Chans.” So I googled, read a lot, and still don’t completely understand. Apparently they’re web sites where you create your own forums?

There’s 2, 4, 7, 8, Charlie, and Lee (”Number One Son”) Chan. No mention of 1 (unless that’s Lee — Number One Son), 3, 5, 6, or anything greater than 8 Chan.

So is the owner of a web site responsible for all content of each member’s forum posts?

Is Jim Thompson responsible for all we say on FR, and then do when we’re not logged in? That must be a hughly series stune to his beeber.

Or is all this just anti-Asian bigotry? From what I googled, Charlie Chan was a great American. Naturalized, but a true patriot! He took down some really bad guys, once even thwarting a Nazi attempt to steal one of our new aerial guidance systems.

Is this congressional hearing necessary, or is it, as Sidney Wang would say, “Conversation like television set on honeymoon: unnecessary?”

Yes, its basically a bunch of forums. A lot of the forums are places where people can gather to do research on various topics. The owner has stated that the original place the recent manifesto was published was Instagram, but a user posted it to 8chan. They do this to collect information and spread it to other researchers, so it is possible that it was only posted on 8chan for legitimate research purposes. I don't know for a fact, I didn't see it.

Some interesting collateral damage that no one has talked about is that the controversial "Q" posted on an 8chan board set up for those posts and research into those posts. There, a lot of photos, documents, tweets were collected and examined that had something to do with whatever "Q" was posting about. That forum was deleted too, along with all of 8chan, for a posting on one of the unrelated forums. Could this have been an effort more to target the "Q" researchers than to stop shooters from posting there?

I think you can dispense with worrying about what the standard is at the moment you notice the alleged standard is not being applied to Google, Twitter, FB, Instagram, etc., all of which have been the primary forum for a great many horrible crimes.

On 8chan, as was the case with Gab, as will be the case in the future with other websites you’ll first hear of when they are demonized by full-court media press, you can say things that Communists don’t like - and Communists can’t live with that.

“So is the owner of a web site responsible for all content of each member’s forum posts?”

Of course. If the killer had posted his manifesto on the door of Walmart, then naturally Walmart supports mass murderers. Post it on the wall of an IRS building, and the IRS is in league with mass killers. Stick a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Sen. Schumer’s lunch box and Chucky is a Nazi. See how easy that works?

Ain’t liberal logic grand?