{"id":192713,"date":"2019-08-06T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192713"},"modified":"2019-08-09T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T07:27:20","slug":"8chan-another-mass-shooting-another-internet-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192713","title":{"rendered":"8chan: Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Aug 5, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Last year, after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the new social-media platform Gab was attacked in the press and bullied off the internet<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Earlier this year, following the Christ Church mosque attack<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, New Zealand briefly totally blocked access to several websites.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, two men allegedly killed 30 people at a store in Dayton Ohio, and a mall in El Paso Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today 8chan has been totally shut down.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know what 8chan is, well it\u2019s like 4chan but without the sense of decency. If you don\u2019t know what 4chan is, it\u2019s like reddit went off its medication.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both places could be, can be, kinda gross. But they could \u2013 can \u2013 also be amazing. Insightful. Useful. Free speech is like that. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly. If you cut off the ugly parts it\u2019s not \u201cfree speech\u201d anymore. This is something we all know, but the media is trying to force us to forget.<\/span><\/p>\n

The boot-licking justification of this move was, of course, spear-headed by The Guardian<\/em>: 8chan: the far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The hand-wringers and pearl-clutchers in the media are happy to pretend this is about \u201chate\u201d and \u201csafety\u201d, which is obviously not true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take the thrust of the Guardian article:<\/span><\/p>\n

8chan\u2026why is a website linked to such a high death count allowed to exist on the open internet?<\/span><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t this question be better asked of www.cia.gov<\/strong><\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Or maybe one of these\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

www.defense.gov<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>
\nwww.lockheedmartin.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.army.mil<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.mi5.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hell, going by this absurd definition of \u201cdeath count\u201d \u2013 meaning, apparently, \u201csomeone who allegedly posted there, allegedly committed a crime\u201d \u2013 then all Facebook and twitter have staggering \u201cdeath counts\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Known war criminals use twitter every single day. The alleged Christ Church shooting was live-streamed on Facebook (but it was 8chan that got blocked).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/em> itself published an opinion piece, a week ago, written by Alastair Campbell<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. A man with a body count 50,000x higher than the Texas shooting. That\u2019s an El Paso every day for 137 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t about hate, they\u2019re fine with hate. This isn\u2019t about blood, they love blood.<\/span><\/p>\n

8chan was no more hateful or bloody than any website on that list, so what was the real problem with it?<\/span><\/p>\n

It was anonymous, fringe and uncontrollable.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was free. Now it\u2019s not. Any one of us could be next.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the third \u201cmass casualty event” in less than a year that was immediately followed up by censorship of the internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192716,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192713\/revisions\/192716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}