White-supremacy website 8chan is in deep, deep trouble. (Kiddie-porn trouble.)

[DetlefK]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/8chan-refugees-worried-theyre-downloading-child-porn-on-peer-to-peer-site-zeronet?ref=home

The web security company Cloudflare announced Sunday that it would stop providing protection for 8chan, and the site has been intermittently offline due to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as 8chan moderators search for a new service. When Bitmitigate, another web security company, tried to take 8chan on as a client, Bitmitigate’s partners cut ties, once again taking 8chan offline.

While the site is down, some 8chan fans have turned to a peer-to-peer version of the site, which not even 8chan’s admins endorse.

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While the peer-to-peer model is harder to take offline, it also turns 8chan users’ computers into hosts for the website. That means potentially downloading and redistributing content from the 8chan Zeronet site, which hosts a board called “Child Porn.”

“Say someones a f****t and uploads cp [child porn],” one Zeronet user wondered on Wednesday, as 8chan users flooded Zeronet’s discussion board. “If i happen to download it, it gets shared from my computer, right? And if i dont notice it bunch of people can download it from me? So im a distrubutor at that point, arent i?”

Fortunately for Zeronet users, their computers will only download and host content from pages they’ve clicked on. Unfortunately for 8chan fans, the website is home to images of gore, porn, sexualized drawings of children and sometimes illegal child pornography (which 8chan bans, in theory).

A Zeronet spokesperson told The Daily Beast 8chan content would be downloaded to visitors' computers, although they could delete it later.

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Elsewhere, the conversation devolved into a discussion of whether illegal porn was really just an “illegal combination of 0s and 1s” online, and whether banning child porn was “censorship.”

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“Why is everyone here so MEAN?” the title of one Zeronet discussion thread read on Wednesday. “I get it guys, we're all a little mad about the whole 8chan debacle, but SERIOUSLY, calm down! No need for all this racism/anti-semitism/homophobia.”

The conversation almost immediately turned to users calling each other racist slurs and debating whether sexualized cartoons of children were pedophilic.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Even BAD publicity cannot be good.

Perhaps now the FBI can go digging into other sites that peddle in HATE, RACISM, inciting others to commit VIOLENCE, etc.

But will they is the question, given who is AG at the moment?

[randr]

2. The child abuse at our border is part

of much larger picture.
From the top down something stinks.

[LiberalArkie]

3. The last line in the article is a gem

The conversation almost immediately turned to users calling each other racist slurs and debating whether sexualized cartoons of children were pedophilic.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I howled when I got to that.

I'm in favor of their metaphorical circular firing squad. They can keep up that shit in perpetuity if it keeps them from targeting others for all I care.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Jesus.