The Far Right’s Internet Protector Goes Down After Taking In 8chan
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xw4ea/the-far-rights-internet-protector-goes-down-after-taking-in-8chan
Over the weekend 8chan was booted as a customer by internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, which faced increasing criticism for providing denial-of-service (DDoS) attack mitigation services to the anonymous messaging board.
8chan then quickly found a new protector that has counted several far-right users among its clients: Epik.com. Motherboard reported in May that the little-known Epik had become a safe haven for the extreme right in the face of mounting deplatforming from more mainstream internet companies. Among its clients were the “free speech social network” Gab popular with the far-right, a known neo-Nazi podcasting network Radio Wehrwolf, Alex Jones’s InfoWars, and Bitchute—a YouTube-like site hosting far-right terrorist content.