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‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says the Creator of 8chan, a Megaphone for Gunmen
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Fredrick Brennan was getting ready for church at his home in the Philippines when the news of a mass shooting in El Paso arrived. His response was immediate and instinctive.
“Whenever I hear about a mass shooting, I say, ‘All right, we have to research if there’s an 8chan connection,’” he said about the online message board he started in 2013.
It didn’t take him long to find one.
Moments before the El Paso shooting on Saturday, a four-page message whose author identified himself as the gunman appeared on 8chan. The person who posted the message encouraged his “brothers” on the site to spread the contents far and wide.
In recent months, 8chan has become a go-to resource for violent extremists. At least three mass shootings this year — including the mosque killings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif. — have been announced in advance on the site, often accompanied by racist writings that seem engineered to go viral on the internet.
Mr. Brennan started the online message board as a free speech utopia. But now, 8chan is known as something else: a megaphone for mass shooters, and a recruiting platform for violent white nationalists.
And it has become a focal point for those seeking to disrupt the pathways of online extremism. On Sunday, critics characterized the site as a breeding ground for violence, and lobbied the site’s service providers to get it taken down. One of those providers, Cloudflare, a service that protects websites against cyberattacks, said it would stop working with 8chan on Sunday night and the site went dark about 3 a.m. Eastern time. And Mr. Brennan, who stopped working with the site’s current owner last year, called for it to be taken offline before it leads to further violence.
“Shut the site down,” Mr. Brennan said in an interview. “It’s not doing the world any good. It’s a complete negative to everybody except the users that are there. And you know what? It’s a negative to them, too. They just don’t realize it.”
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Mr. Brennan, who has claimed that he got the idea for 8chan while on psychedelic mushrooms, set out to create what he called a free speech alternative to 4chan, a better-known online message board. He was upset that 4chan had become too restrictive, and he envisioned a site where any legal speech would be welcome, no matter how toxic.
The site remained on the fringes until 2014, when some supporters of GamerGate — a loose reactionary collection of anti-feminist video gamers — flocked to 8chan after being kicked off 4chan.
Since GamerGate, 8chan has become a catchall website for internet-based communities whose behavior gets them evicted from more mainstream sites. It hosts one of the largest gatherings of supporters of QAnon , who claim that there is an international bureaucracy plotting against the Trump administration. And it has been an online home for “incels,” men who lament being “involuntarily celibate,” and other fringe movements.
“8chan is almost like a bulletin board where the worst offenders go to share their terrible ideas,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League. “It’s become a sounding board where people share ideas, and where these kinds of ideologies are amplified and expanded on, and ultimately, people are radicalized as a result.”
8chan has been run out of the Philippines by Jim Watkins, a United States Army veteran , since 2015, when Mr. Brennan gave up control of the site.
The site remains nearly completely unmoderated, and its commitment to keeping up even the most violent speech has made it a venue for extremists to test out ideas, share violent literature and cheer on the perpetrators of mass killings . Users on 8chan frequently lionize mass gunmen using jokey internet vernacular, referring to their body counts as “high scores” and creating memes praising the killers.
Active-shooter episodes in which the gunmen espoused white extremist beliefs have been among the deadliest in recent years.
Mr. Brennan, who has a condition known as brittle-bone disease and uses a wheelchair, has tried to distance himself from 8chan and its current owners. In a March interview with The Wall Street Journal , he expressed his regrets over his role in the site’s creation, and warned that the violent culture that had taken root on 8chan’s boards could lead to more mass shootings.
After the El Paso shooting, he seemed resigned to the fact that it had.
“Another 8chan shooting?” he tweeted on Saturday. “Am I ever going to be able to move on with my life?”
Mr. Watkins, who runs 8chan along with his son, Ronald, has remained defiant in the face of criticism, and has resisted calls to moderate or shut down the site. On Sunday, a banner at the top of 8chan’s home page read, “Welcome to 8chan, the Darkest Reaches of the Internet.”
“I’ve tried to understand so many times why he keeps it going, and I just don’t get it,” Mr. Brennan said. “After Christchurch, after the Tree of Life shooting, and now after this shooting, they think this is all really funny.”
Mr. Watkins did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Over the weekend, 8chan’s critics tried a different tack to get the site shut down, by pressuring the site’s service providers, including its web host, to cut off Mr. Watkins.
One of these providers, the security company Cloudflare, initially indicated on Sunday that it would not cut off 8chan’s access to its network. But later in the day, Cloudflare said it would ban the site after all, depriving Mr. Watkins of a critical tool for keeping the site online.
Matthew Prince, Cloudflare’s chief executive, said the decision to shut off 8chan’s protections was made after determining that the site had allowed an environment of violent extremism to fester, and that 8chan ignored complaints about violent content in a way that larger platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, have not.
“We’ve seen a pattern where this lawless community has demonstrated its ability to create real harm and real damage,” Mr. Prince said of 8chan. “If we see a bad thing in the world and we can help get in front of it, we have some obligation to do that.”
Another company, Tucows, which controls 8chan’s domain name registration, had no plans as of Sunday evening to disable the site’s web address.
“We have no immediate plans other than to keep discussing internally,” said Graeme Bunton, manager of public policy at Tucows.
In the early days of 8chan, Mr. Brennan defended the right of 8chan users to post anonymously, without censorship. And he dismissed incidents of harassment or violence by users of the site as the price of being an open forum.
“Anonymity should not be taken away from everyone just because of a few bad apples,” he told Ars Technica, the technology website, in a 2015 interview .
But more recently, Mr. Brennan, who has begun attending a Baptist church, has tried to persuade Mr. Watkins to shut down the site. He and Mr. Watkins live near each other in the Philippines, he said, and he often drives past Mr. Watkins’s house on his way to church.
Mr. Brennan said that other websites, like Facebook and Twitter, also play a role in spreading the kinds of violent messages that often originate on 8chan. But he said that those sites have been more proactive about removing dangerous content, making them less appealing venues for a would-be terrorist.
“Shutting it down, having these chan sites pushed underground, it wouldn’t totally stop these kinds of things from happening,” he said. “But it wouldn’t happen every few months.”
Mr. Brennan said he doubted that Mr. Watkins makes money from 8chan, since it is free to use and costly to maintain, and since its toxic content has made it radioactive to advertisers. (In a 2017 interview, Mr. Watkins said of running 8chan, “It doesn’t make money, but it’s a lot of fun.”) And Mr. Brennan is hopeful that sustained pressure on Mr. Watkins and his son will get them to change their minds eventually, and take down 8chan for good.
“How long are they just going to allow this to go on?” he asked.
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Pawsru.org , formerly Paws.ru , was an image board based on the 2ch style art community , where users can request and post furry related images. Hosted in Russia , Pawsru.org was an English -speaking board.
Created on September 13, 2007 as Paws.ru , the site was updated to Kusaba 1.1.0 [ clarify ] on December 19, 2008. In February of 2010, Paws.ru changed its domain name to Pawsru.org . [1] [2] Once an active community, posting slowed starting around 2013. Spam plagued the site consistently in the last couple of years, with it becoming especially frequent in the month leading up to the site's closure. Mods combated and removed the spam as best as they could, but did not have access to the site's servers. [3] The site admin, Bartimaeus , seemingly became disinterested with the website, leaving mods frustrated with little course of action. [4] A dwindling user base, coupled with growing spam and helpless mods, eventually lead to Pawsru.org going offline on October 30th, 2015. [5] It is largely considered shut down.
The site's older (Old Paws Archive) boards, which were linked through stickies at the top of their newer (PawsX) boards equivalents, were not affected by the later spam because they were locked. These older boards had years worth of content stashed on them that was, for all intents and purposes, largely forgotten about as time went on and users diminished. Unfortunately when the site went down, it took all of this content with it. The Wayback Machine only provides partial captures for both newer and older boards; full size images, for the most part, were not saved.
There is a theory that the site was being spammed manually, by people who tried to sabotage threads where users uploaded paysite content, as the site eventually had captcha and security measures that would prevent bots from doing the spamming. [6] Previous issues, relating to spam and other factors, resulted in large wipes of content from boards, such as in 2008 [7] , 2012 and 2013. [8] [9]
Much of the dead site is accessible through the Wayback Machine , though most images only appear as thumbnails (or sometimes not at all). The older Pawsru.org (Old Paws Archive) boards can be found here or here , with posts from 2008-2011. The newer Pawsru.org (PawsX) boards can be found here , with posts from 2011-2015. The last crawls of various boards for Pawsru.org span from April to September 2015. [10]
Refugees from the fallout of the site created their own Pawsru board on 8chan [11] on October 16th, 2015. [12]
On January 8th, 2018 a very kind person converted backups posted on the refugee board to a newer chan software and began hosting feetpaws [13] . Unfortunately, while the backups were originally set up as weekly they broke in December of 2013 and were never fixed. It's also only a backup of the newer pawsX section, the older locked board was not backed up and is lost.
Pawsru.org introduced a new mascot named Pawl for the site in 2009. Character created by by Krezz Karavan.
Paws.ru has a DNP (Do Not Post) list as of 2010:
As of 2011 October 9, the site contains 13 boards:
Otf is moderator only in /aws/ and does not read other boards.
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yiff.party was a web scraper website that used bots to crawl various different Patreon campaigns, mainly those of furry content creators. The unauthorizedly scraped content was then published for anyone to view for free. Because of the large scale art piracy that yiff.party engaged in, it led the site to become controversial and often criticized by creators and patrons alike during its operation.
yiff.party was created on July 23 by an anonymous 8chan user on its "/furry/" board, in response to the growing number of Patreon creators, using the platform as a paywall by forcing their fans to pay in order to view their newest works. At first, yiff.party was accessible by anWone simply by going to the site, but due to increasing pressure from its hosting providers and creators who were being scraped on the site, access was restricted exclusively to 8chan users by using a special authorization URL that checks the browser's [W:HTTP referer|referrer]] to limit access from outside of 8chan.
Patreon introduced a "charge upfront" feature for creators, which allows creators who have been registered for more than a month to charge new patrons upfront for access to content, as opposed to making access instantly available and making the first charge on the following month. Creators who enabled this feature were immune to yiff.party's scraping bots, until April 2017, when yiff.party implemented a "post importer", allowing users who are pledged to a creator on Patreon to import the posts they have access to, effectively bypassing the charge upfront restriction. [1]
yiff.party introduced an account registration system, which allows users who do not use 8chan to access yiff.party. However, in an effort to prevent leeching from outside users, accounts are only given to those who promise to contribute to the site by using its post importer.
On November 14, 2020, the administration announced that yiff.party would shut down after 5 years of service. [2]
During the first few months of the site being operational, it gained the attention of many well-known creators such as Kayla-Na , Zeta-Haru , and Zonkpunch , who, among others, submitted takedown requests to the site. These requests were then posted publicly by yiff.party, but removed several months later.
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