Cloudfare drops 8Chan as a client after mass shooting - calls it 'cesspool of hate'

Internet security company and network provider Cloudflare Inc. said it would drop 8chan as a client Sunday, a day after two mass shootings left nearly 30 dead and hours after the message board’s founder condemned the site as “a receptive audience for domestic terrorists.”

“Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet,” Chief Executive Matthew Prince said in a blog post. “At some level firing 8chan as a customer is easy. They are uniquely lawless and that lawlessness has contributed to multiple horrific tragedies. Enough is enough.”

The gunman who killed 20 people Saturday in El Paso, Texas, posted a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto on 8chan shortly before his attack.

“Once again, a terrorist used 8chan to spread his message as he knew people would save it and spread it,” Brennan said, according to a New York Post report. “The board is a receptive audience for domestic terrorists.”

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I thought the guy attempted to post his 'manifesto' there and they immediately deleted it?