Disposed by Cloudflare, 8chan returns online– then gets began once again
Enlarge / At an interfaith vigil for victims of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, which killed 21 people. The suspected terrorist gunman had posted to the website 8chan shortly before the tragedy, prompting Web companies to cut 8chan off. Getty Images | Mario Tama 8chan was able to get back online today despite…
Cloudflare has actually had enough, cutting off 8chan
Enlarge / Matthew Prince, co-founder and chief executive officer of CloudFlare Inc. Bloomberg/Getty Images In the wake of Saturday's mass shooting in El Paso, in which 20 people lost their lives, it was discovered that the shooter had posted a racist manifesto on the imageboard site 8chan. That was the third time this year alone…
One week later on, THQ Nordic disavows 8chan AMA
Almost a week after hosting an "Ask Me Anything" Q&A on controversial imageboard 8chan, the parent company of game publisher THQ Nordic is formally apologizing for the move. "This letter is to offer my sincerest apologies and regret for THQ Nordic GmbH Vienna's interaction with the controversial website 8chan last Tuesday, February 26," the statement…
3 hours after allying with 8chan, THQ Nordic enters into complete...
Enlarge / The hero of THQ Nordic's Darksiders series, as seen here fused with the Baghdad Bob meme, seems appropriate after today's THQ-8chan blow-up. Game publisher THQ Nordic concluded a rollercoaster of a promotional Tuesday by apologizing for its use of the controversial imageboard site 8chan as a host for an "Ask Me Anything" Q&A…
