8chan Owner Defends Speech Forum in Wake of El Paso Shooting

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The owner of an online forum in which the alleged El Paso shooter posted a manifesto says the forum’s internet-service provider 'has dispersed a peacefully assembled group of people talking'

The owner of online forum 8chan defended his company in a YouTube video Tuesday against the internet-services provider that effectively took it offline and against attempts to silence platforms of speech.

Jim Watkins, an internet entrepreneur who took control of 8chan in 2015, said the forum has been helping law enforcement with its investigation into a Saturday mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart store that left 22 people dead and more than 20 injured.

 

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Sure! Like this one 👇 Maybe you guys should write about te vile antisemitism that goes on that site instead of promoting its owner.

He looks like a supremacist sympathizer .

Why is it you know the person running that shady site is going to look like he is greasy all the time...

saraheneedleman realDonaldTrump He should be in JAIL for running poisonous platform!! POTUS POTUS WSJ

I don't understand.

Why are you even giving this guy a media platform?

The internet is a flawed collective of thoughts and concepts organized by popularity. Don't believe anything you see, including this.

Maybe the online provider is trying to hide something about the shooter?

Assembled peacefully...to plan acts of violence.

a hero

You have the right of free speech. The service provider has the right to refuse you as a customer. Common business practice.

He looks like a chubby Adolf Hitler.

He looks *precisely* as I would imagine the owner of 8chan to look. To. A. Fucking. TEE.

When people cannot be heard because they are banned offline, they commit acts of violence to be heard. Facts.

Na brah.

No

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