2019-08-07
Getting Cloudflare to ditch 8chan drove them to competitor Bitmitigate. But getting Voxility to ditch Bitmitigate affected not just 8chan, but collaborators Gab, Epik etc. And sets a precedent for further infrastructure divestment. https://arstechnica.com/...
The Seattle Times
Epik, which serves sites like Gab.com and Daily Stormer, says it will not provide 8chan with DoS or CDN services through its BitMitigate division
A Seattle-area web-hosting firm has reversed course and decided not to host the 8chan web forum linked to Saturday's mass shooting in El Paso.
2019-08-06
Getting Cloudflare to ditch 8chan drove them to competitor Bitmitigate. But getting Voxility to ditch Bitmitigate affected not just 8chan, but collaborators Gab, Epik etc. And sets a precedent for further infrastructure divestment. https://arstechnica.com/...
Vox
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brod...
Getting Cloudflare to ditch 8chan drove them to competitor Bitmitigate. But getting Voxility to ditch Bitmitigate affected not just 8chan, but collaborators Gab, Epik etc. And sets a precedent for further infrastructure divestment. https://arstechnica.com/...
New York Times
Since January, Trump's campaign has posted 2,000+ immigration-focused Facebook ads that use the word “invasion”; report suggests the ads cost $1.25M
Some of President Trump's re-election ads have repeated his inflammatory claims about an “invasion” on the southern border …