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An online forum that was used by the suspect of the\u00a0El Paso shootings,<\/a>\u00a0had its services suspended by Cloudflare<\/a> on Monday in an attempt to stop the spread of far-right messages that had been circulating on the site.<\/p>\n

8chan, also known as Infinitechan, was left with no cloud protection services, making it vulnerable to an array of cyber-attacks that had the potential to shut down the entire site.<\/p>\n

The gunman of the recent El Paso attack used the webpage to go on an alleged white nationalist rant before storming a Walmart and killing 22 people.<\/p>\n

Support from other places<\/h4>\n

However, US-based firm, BitMigate (who were recently acquired by Epik.com), said they wanted to give cloud protection to 8chan and provide them with, \u201cBulletproof DDoS protection with a proven commitment to liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, BitMitgate also chose to deliver security to the neo-Nazi site, the Daily Stormer, after\u00a0Cloudflare<\/a>\u00a0also stopped defense to its website.<\/p>\n

In choosing to remove safeguarding from Infinitechan, the chief executive of Cloudflare Matthew Prince commented on Sunday, \u201cEven if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

8chan is currently down<\/h4>\n

Epik.com relies heavily on\u00a0cloud infrastructure company<\/a>, Voxility. After hearing that the BitMigate parent company had chosen to takeover 8chan, Voxility quickly cut off Epik.com, leaving 8chan unable to run.<\/p>\n

However, despite the lack of support, the\u00a0online forum<\/a>\u00a0is still fighting to find companies that will provide cloud support for it. Something which Alex Stemos, former chief security officer at Facebook and Professor at Stanford University\u2019s Centre for International Security and Cooperation, is skeptical about.<\/p>\n

He told the British newspaper, The Guardian: \u201cWe will see if they find someone else willing to host them before they get kicked off again\u2026 In the long run, there are a number of web hosts in Russia that charge a lot of money to host content that nobody else wants to host \u2013 that means 8chan would ultimately be much slower and much less effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impact of tech on the world<\/h4>\n

The move from cloud providers to cut ties with websites that associate with extremist right-wing viewpoints is reflecting on the higher level of responsibilities that tech companies are having on world politics and everyday occurrences in general.<\/p>\n

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