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August 5, 2019 05:55 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LQ6cPdWIuoc/8chan-goes-dark-after-hardware-provider-discontinues-service
8chan Goes Dark After Hardware Provider Discontinues Service
Internet hate forum 8chan has gone dark after web services company Voxility banned the site -- and also banned 8chan's new host Epik, which had been leasing web space from it. From a report: Epik began working with 8chan over the weekend after web services giant Cloudflare cut off service, following the latest of at least three mass shootings linked to 8chan. But Stanford researcher Alex Stamos noted that Epik seemed to lease servers from Voxility, and when Voxility discovered the content, it cut ties with Epik almost immediately. "As soon as we were notified of the content that Epik was hosting, we made the decision to totally ban them," Voxility business development VP Maria Sirbu told The Verge. Sirbu said it was unlikely that Voxility would work with Epik again. "This is the second situation we've had with the reseller and this is not tolerable," she said.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LQ6cPdWIuoc/8chan-goes-dark-after-hardware-provider-discontinues-service
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