[Vince Ferrer]

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?

[kevao]

Was that an imposed deletion, like when FaceBook or Twitter shuts someone down, or an auto-deletion, like when the FBI deletes all those Strzok/Page texts to hide their crimes?

By the way, from where does you Ferrer name originate?

[Cboldt]

While there are some deletions on 8chan, they are similar to deleted posts here - deleted for a reason such as repetitive spam or illegal content or extremely obnoxious but legal content.

The "entirety" of 8chan is not deleted. The data still exist. For a couple days maybe it was not accessible to the public via network, and it is now not accessible to the pubic via its domainname. The website is available now (not via domainname) and is read-only, so no new shared research and remarks are available there since Sunday.

Press descriptions of 8chan are as accurate as the claim that "Trump is a racist."

The current owner of the website is happy to testify to Congress and the public. Conmgress is hostile to free speech, having enabled Twitter and Facebook to ban conservative speech with statutory immunity from suit.

[Paladin2]

Are there now Departments of Q “Studies” at the Unis now?