8chan reemerges as "8kun" but can't keep its new website online
Source: Arstechnica
"Not sure how long we will be able to stay online with clearnet due to activists trying to deplatform us, and hackers preparing to ddos us. The tor hidden service should remain available regardless," Watkins wrote on Twitter Saturday. 8kun was also available on Loki, which Watkins described as an experimental alternative to Tor.
FURTHER READING
Dumped by Cloudflare, 8chan gets back onlinethen gets kicked off again
8kun is using Tucows as its registrar, and a Vice report says that 8kun's hosting service is the Russia-based Media Land LLC. Media Land was recently described as a "bulletproof hosting service" by security reporter Brian Krebs. It's not clear if the 8kun administrators found a full replacement for Cloudflare's anti-DDoS services.
"We have been under sustained attacks the past few days and doing everything we can to get things stable again," Watkins wrote on Twitter today, shortly before the site went down again. "The site is still onlinealbeit limping alongas we reorganize and restructure to deflect attacks coming from many angles."
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8chan temporarily got back online in early August, shortly after losing Cloudflare service. 8chan switched its website to a provider called BitMitigate, the same company that began serving the Daily Stormer after Cloudflare cut it off. But that didn't last long, either, as BitMitigate's cloud infrastructure provider decided to shut off BitMitigate's service.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/8chan-gets-back-online-and-is-promptly-forced-off-again/
It looks like hate speech on the internet is not welcomed by the uber-geeks. Makes my day.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Odoreida
(1,549 posts)So that's a big victory for kidding yourselves.
ToxMarz
(2,166 posts)But it is one more line of defense to their spread.
Odoreida
(1,549 posts)The New Zealand shooter live streamed on Facebook before the video surfaced on 8chan.
The Dallas shooter's manifesto was on Instagram.
etc.
And 8chan was primarily a porn site, though being "uncensored" lead to other things.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)There's always going to be a tiny core that follows wherever they wind up, the point of de-platforming is to deny them a wider audience, i.e the casuals and the passers-by.
A recent and successful example;
The former conservative media star is broke, saddled with as much as $4 million in debt. Theres a reason for that.
Odoreida
(1,549 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)But there's a big difference between getting to have your programs on ABC vs local broadcasting
The more difficult it is made, the more people they lose
MineralMan
(146,290 posts)or 8cuck?
Or how about it goes away permanently?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)"8chan or 8kun or whatever the fuck it's called now. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Chan and Kun are Japanese honorifics like San and Sama. I wonder who thought to use these?
They don't seem very honorable at all...
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)it all started with 2Channel (2Chan) in Japan, then some Americans started up 4Chan. 4Chan was notorious for posting things like kiddie porn, usually of a hentai variety. When 4Chan finally put the kibosh on that, some disgruntled 4Channers went their own way and started up 8Chan, which is (or was) the festering, stinky cesspool of the Internet.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)chan = child | kun = adult
I could be very wrong.
I read it in this very good blog post that, aside from the subject matter, contains some great insights about isolation and the healing power of IRL community.
https://www.wonkette.com/8chan-and-qanon-come-back-just-in-time-to-make-thanksgiving-awkward-af
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Kun for boy friends (normally like a friend in high school.) Kun is used for males and never used for females. Chan is used exclusively for females and babies (despite their sex.) A kitten could be called "Chan" but an adult cat is never called Kun. Simply Neko. (Cat.) or even San which is semi formal.