8chan

The anonymous message board went back online in November 2019 as 8kun, three months after being booted off the internet. After the El Paso shooting, one of the 8chan founders, Fredrick Brennan, said, “Shut the site down.” In September, the site’s owner, Jim Watkins, testified in front of Congress about 8chan’s operation and policies. The site had been operating out of the Philippines. The message board went offline in August after Cloudflare, a company that protects websites from cyberattacks, said it would no longer provide its services to 8chan because of the site’s willingness to incite violence. Tucows, which helps companies register their website addresses, also booted 8chan from its platform. Ron Watkins, an administrator for the site and the son of Jim Watkins, said that it was currently somewhat inaccessible because it was being hit with overwhelming traffic.