Profile of 23-year-old Nick Lim, who founded Vancouver-based VanwaTech, a hosting provider for white supremacist websites like Daily Stormer and 8kun
.' ” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Aly-Khan Satchu / @alykhansatchu : “My take on Trump is that he is an inevitable creation of this unreal normal world,” Adam Curtis says The Spinning Top https://rich.co.ke/... A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon Online When No One Else Would @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... Aly-Khan Satchu / @alykhansatchu : The long and short of it," he wrote, “is that we don't give interviews to traitors of our country that participate in attempted coups sponsored by offshore money.” He cc'd close to 100 other recipients @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... The Spinning Top https://rich.co.ke/... @isasaxonists : Yuck. A depressing story abt a 23-yr-old cashing in by keeping far-right sites online. This kind of apolitical faux cluelessness will no doubt catch up w/ him, & the damage he's doing to society is sickening. Not only is he ignorant he's gaslighting ppl abt harm. https://twitter.com/... Laila Alawa / @lulainlife : “I never actually read the book.” This man really thinks he's doing something. He really, really thinks he's doing something revolutionary, and hasn't even picked up the damn book. Happy to lend you my dog-eared copy of 1984, because you've got a reality check coming for you. https://twitter.com/... Aly-Khan Satchu / @alykhansatchu : When CNServers did so, 8kun went offline for about an hour before VanwaTech switched to another service provider. He now uses DDoS Guard, a Russian company less sensitive to pressure campaigns. @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://rich.co.ke/... Aly-Khan Satchu / @alykhansatchu : “Politics has become a pantomime or vaudeville in that it creates waves of anger rather than argument. Maybe people like Trump are successful simply because they fuel that anger, in the echo chambers of the internet.” https://rich.co.ke/... @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... @slpng_giants : Having shared DMs with @LimTheNick, he is one of the most dishonest people we've dealt with. At first, he begged not to be called out for hosting the Daily Stomer & 8kun, then he said he was just providing security for them, then he chalked it all up to, yes, “free speech”. https://twitter.com/... Joshua Brustein / @joshuabrustein : An important part of the infrastructure of QAnon and other fringe right websites has been maintained by a 23-year old living in the Portland suburbs. My latest with @WilliamTurton https://www.bloomberg.com/... @bw : NEW COVER: This 23-year-old has kept QAnon, the Daily Stormer, and the far right online when no one else would. Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... @nnimrodd : Lim exists in a singularly odd corner of the business world. He says he's not an extremist, just an entrepreneur with a maximalist view of free speech. “There needs to be a me, right?” he says, while eating pho at a Vietnamese restaurant near his headquarters. FYI @jonrafman https://twitter.com/... Renee DiResta / @noupside : 'i didn't read 1984 but i saw the memes' https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
In October I flew to Vancouver, Washington to meet Nick Lim, the creator of VanwaTech. His service is key to keeping 8kun (the home of QAnon) and other far-right websites online when nobody else will. with @joshuabrustein https://www.bloomberg.com/...
“I never actually read the book.” This man really thinks he's doing something. He really, really thinks he's doing something revolutionary, and hasn't even picked up the damn book. Happy to lend you my dog-eared copy of 1984, because you've got a reality check coming for you. htt…
Web hosting for 8kun has since been spread over 11 IP addresses held by three different companies, all based in Moscow and in business with DDoS Guard, says Guilmette. @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... 05-DEC-2016:: “We have a deviate, Tomahawk.” https://www.rich.co.ke/...
“My take on Trump is that he is an inevitable creation of this unreal normal world,” Adam Curtis says The Spinning Top https://rich.co.ke/... A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon Online When No One Else Would @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/...
The long and short of it," he wrote, “is that we don't give interviews to traitors of our country that participate in attempted coups sponsored by offshore money.” He cc'd close to 100 other recipients @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... The Spinning Top https://rich.co.ke/...
He rents rooms on cheap to friends from high school who help keep party going The crew has nicknamed the house Vansterdam. @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... backyard littered with weightlifting equipment & bongs, along with a shed full of computer servers for mining cryptocurrenc…
He wrote to Anglin on Gab, a social network popular among rightist fringe, offered free use of BitMitigate, his latest DDoS protection product @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daily Stormer “They could be joking,” Either way, “I just don't care. To me, it's not illegal speech.”
When CNServers did so, 8kun went offline for about an hour before VanwaTech switched to another service provider. He now uses DDoS Guard, a Russian company less sensitive to pressure campaigns. @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://rich.co.ke/...
lim says he's not political but it's precisely that kind of supposed indifference that absolutely means you have taken a side, and that is to side with those who want to kill us. https://twitter.com/...
“Politics has become a pantomime or vaudeville in that it creates waves of anger rather than argument. Maybe people like Trump are successful simply because they fuel that anger, in the echo chambers of the internet.” https://rich.co.ke/... @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/...
“We are one foot away from 1984. ... “I never actually read the book, so I don't know all the themes of the book. But I have heard the concepts, and I've seen some things, and I thought, 'Whoa! That's sketchy as f—.' ” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Wow. This guy thinks he's a champion of free speech but has nothing against making money by helping to promote hate online; says he's apolitical but has close ties to 8kun and Epik's founders; refers to 1984 to make his point but has never read the book. https://www.bloomberg.com…
Shocking that the guy who provides infrastructure for far right conspiracy theories makes analogies to a book he's never actually read. https://twitter.com/...
Yuck. A depressing story abt a 23-yr-old cashing in by keeping far-right sites online. This kind of apolitical faux cluelessness will no doubt catch up w/ him, & the damage he's doing to society is sickening. Not only is he ignorant he's gaslighting ppl abt harm. https://twitter.…
I wrote about Nick Lim back in 2017, when he gave the Nazi rag the Daily Stormer safe haven when no one else would (imo, it should have died a sad little death) https://www.google.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
NEW COVER: This 23-year-old has kept QAnon, the Daily Stormer, and the far right online when no one else would. Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://…
Lim exists in a singularly odd corner of the business world. He says he's not an extremist, just an entrepreneur with a maximalist view of free speech. “There needs to be a me, right?” he says, while eating pho at a Vietnamese restaurant near his headquarters. FYI @jonrafman http…
An important part of the infrastructure of QAnon and other fringe right websites has been maintained by a 23-year old living in the Portland suburbs. My latest with @WilliamTurton https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Having shared DMs with @LimTheNick, he is one of the most dishonest people we've dealt with. At first, he begged not to be called out for hosting the Daily Stomer & 8kun, then he said he was just providing security for them, then he chalked it all up to, yes, “free speech”. https…