After The New Zealand Terror Attack, Should 8chan Be Wiped From The Web?

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[MNDude]

On Friday, a man murdered 49 people in Christchurch, New Zealand. He targeted Muslims at two mosques in the city in what’s been deemed a terrorist attack, one of the most horrific acts of violence the country has ever seen.

Shortly before the attack, in what appeared to be posts from the alleged shooter, links to a Facebook livestream of the killings were shared on 8chan. Social media channels later struggled to remove copies of that stream, while his 74-page “manifesto” also spread from 8chan across the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

[CJ Wolf]

Dude. You legendary. Good job getting that flag.

[Califreak]

He will not divide us!

Womp womp.

That was a beautiful thing.

Sent poor Shia right off the rails.

[Mr. Blond]

This attack was being discussed live as the shooter was on his way to the mosque. Law enforcement was quite late to show up...

[Deaf Smith]

Not with a 556 live on facebook.

[lastchance]

What is 8chan? I have read mention of it here but remain ignorant, blissfully so I assume.

[jarwulf]

by this same logic we should shutdown all the major news networks. Since they’re the ones that are the reason for all this nonsense in the first place by giving mass shooters their ultimate goal of infamy and immortality.

[NorseViking]

Oh, yes. Ban 8chan, guns and go hug poor Muslims. Don’t forget he was a ‘Trump fan’. Facebook, YouTube?... Nevermind.
The reaction is so predictable.

[semimojo]

This attack was being discussed live as the shooter was on his way to the mosque. Law enforcement was quite late to show up...

Do you think anyone discussing it tried to alert law enforcement?

[FreedomPoster]

The dude live-streamed the act on Facebook. Why isn’t shutting Facebook down being talked about?

[Mr. Blond]

No. I’m admittedly not quite sure what my question is. Depends if you believe sites like this are monitored. If the answer is yes, that leads to more questions.

[Revel]

I have never seen a false flag that was more obvious. The Deep state is terrified by who posts on 8chan, and they know that exposure and indictments are coming.

[FreedomPoster]

The weaponized autism applied in finding Shia Leboeuf’s flag was just awesome.

[Crazieman]

More violence will definitely happen if cripplechan or 4chan are struck from the web for FREE SPEECH purposes.

[RandallFlagg]

Another distraction.
If the pattern holds true, there’ll be another rampage murder in less than 20 days.
Everyone stay armed and watchful.
We have to put these monsters down on sight to defend innocents.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

rofl, back to the Qult threads with you two!! No one in the Deep State is going to care about your Fan Fiction or is going to be “terrified” over it....

[Major Matt Mason]

Yes, who could forget this beauty?

[GOPJ]

The unibomber was a liberal extremist... based on his style of terrorism should all liberal sites be closed down?

Oh, AND he drank iced coffee... should Starbucks be closed too?

[Robert DeLong]

About the author, that you left off of your post.

Thomas Brewster

I cover crime, privacy and security in digital and physical forms.

I cover security and privacy for Forbes. I’ve been breaking news and writing features on these topics for major publications since 2010. As a freelancer, I worked for The Guardian, Vice Motherboard, Wired and BBC.com, amongst many others. I was named BT Security Journalist of the year in 2012 and 2013 for a range of exclusive articles, and in 2014 was handed Best News Story for a feature on US government harassment of security professionals. I like to hear from hackers who are breaking things for either fun or profit and researchers who've uncovered nasty things on the web. You can email me at TBrewster@forbes.com, or tbthomasbrewster@gmail.com. If you are worried about prying eyes, here's my PGP fingerprint for the Gmail address: 19A0 3F37 B3B7 4C1E C1D1 9AA4 5E37 654C 1660 B817

[Hostage]

Hmmm ...
I’m not going to say anything about the number 17. Nope, nothing from me about 17, zero zip nada.

17?

Nope, don’t know a thing about it. Never heard it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So censorship is the first response?

I wonder why?