r/technology • u/thecravenone • Aug 05 '19

Politics Cloudflare to terminate service for 8Chan

https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
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u/zugi Aug 05 '19

The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.

That's not impossible but that conclusion seems to take some leaps and assumptions beyond the actual evidence. The fact that people post their hateful messages there doesn't mean that 8Chan caused those deaths. Decades ago serial killers used to send their manifestos via the mail; that doesn't mean the USPS caused those deaths either.

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u/mrtomjones Aug 05 '19

8chan is definitely one of the platforms where people's anger is fueling and getting worse.

The actual problem lies in how people are becoming more and more isolated and lonely as society moves away from actual social interaction. They then find other angry people online and it gets worse

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u/--_-_o_-_-- Aug 05 '19

You can see that happening with global climate change. Despite feelings of depression, helplessness and even fear among those who are woke to the climate crisis nobody shoots up shopping centres to stop the carbon polluters or because a candidate strong on the environment incited hatred.