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Controversial web forum 8chan has moved its domain name to a new registrar after it was linked to at least one of the two mass shootings that occurred in the US over the weekend.

According to Whois records, it’s just jumped to racist-friendly Epik, having been registered at Tucows since 2003.

The switch appears to have happened in the last few hours. At time of writing, you’re going to get different results depending which Whois server you ping.

Some servers continue to report Tucows as the registrar of record, perhaps using cached data, but Epik’s result looks like this:

http://domainincite.com/24593-after-more-racist-shootings-take-one-guess-which-registrar-8chan-just-switched-to?
 
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So with gab and 8chan having found homes at Epik, the question is....

Is a registrar responsible for content or is it the webhost that should do the censoring?

Was cloudflare right to boot them off?

Or should there simply be no censorship?

What about consequences?
 
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In my opinion the hosting platform should be the one that must censor certain stuff by using their TOS power. I do not see any particular reason why the registrar should be held responsible for what is happening on that specific domain.

This is only an abuse so their registrar company image wouldn't be affected negatively, nothing more.
 
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Controversial web forum 8chan has moved its domain name to a new registrar after it was linked to at least one of the two mass shootings that occurred in the US over the weekend.

According to Whois records, it’s just jumped to racist-friendly Epik, having been registered at Tucows since 2003.

The switch appears to have happened in the last few hours. At time of writing, you’re going to get different results depending which Whois server you ping.

Some servers continue to report Tucows as the registrar of record, perhaps using cached data, but Epik’s result looks like this:

http://domainincite.com/24593-after-more-racist-shootings-take-one-guess-which-registrar-8chan-just-switched-to?

This leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
 
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Every race is guilty of racism. To the best of my understanding, white people are the least racist people on earth, yet they get most of the blames. That's not fair.

We have "Black Caucus" in the USA Congress, to what end? That is pure racism in plain sight that shouldn't be condoned. The whole world would go mad if ever there's something called White Caucus in the USA Congress or anywhere. But because it's black, everyone pretends that is ok.

We always see Africans saying they are the best, you see Arabs saying they are the best, you see Asians saying they are the best. But once the White-men says they are the best, it comes racism. Why?

We are free in this world today because of white people and I salute them for that. I salute them for technological inventions of which they are responsible for the 99%. I salute them for democracy and freedom. I salute them for promoting equality among all men. They are the reason the world is free today. I salute them for the countless battles they fought to prevent Persians from conquering the world which would have plunged humanity into darkness. I salute them for education, science, and medicine. For finding cures to countless of diseases that could have wiped us all years ago.

Yes, they have their short-falls and so do every other race. The earlier we stopped criminalizing white people for their existence, the better. If other people can speak of their racial pride without fear, why should the white be afraid to do the same. or be held accountable for doing the same?

We overly blame white people for everything, and the people who promotes and sponsor these mindset are the real racist bad people who are trying to takeover this world. These people still practice barbarism till this day. Let us unite and fight them. Let us stop apportioning blames to the white man for merely existing. Let us look for the good in everyone.

Cheers!
 
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In my opinion the hosting platform should be the one that must censor certain stuff by using their TOS power. I do not see any particular reason why the registrar should be held responsible for what is happening on that specific domain.

This is only an abuse so their registrar company image wouldn't be affected negatively, nothing more.
No one should censor any platform. Each individual should be held accountable for their own actions.
 
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Of course they went to Epik. Who didn't see that coming.
 
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Is a registrar responsible for content or is it the webhost that should do the censoring?

Have a look at the Epik ToS

https://www.epik.com/terms.php

Especially 3.2 and 3.4

"You may not use the Site or the Services provided through or in connection with the Site to: (a) defame, abuse, harass, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; (b) conduct or forward illegal contests, pyramid schemes, or chain letters; (c) publish, post, distribute, disseminate or link to any: (i) unlawful content, topic, material, or information, any of which are of an obscene, adult, nude, prurient, or indecent nature;"

3.4. Violations of Acceptable Use
Epik may elect to discontinue offering the Services, or any portion thereof, at any time for any reason, with or without advance notice.

3.2. Use of the Services and the Site
You agree not to use the Services provided by Epik, or to allow or enable others, to use the services provided by Epik for the purposes of: 1) the transmission of unsolicited email (Spam); or 2) repetitive, high volume inquires into any of the services provided by Epik (i.e. domain name availability, etc.). Further, if you are hosting your domain`s domain name servers ("DNS") on Epik’s servers, or are using our systems to forward a domain, URL, or otherwise to a system or site hosted elsewhere, or if you have your domain name registered with Epik, you are responsible for ensuring that there is no excessive overloading of Epik’s DNS systems. You may not use Epik’s servers and your domain as a source, intermediary, reply to address, or destination address for mail bombs, Internet packet flooding, packet corruption, or other abusive attack. Server hacking or other perpetration of security breaches is prohibited. You agree that Epik reserves the right to deactivate your domain name from its DNS system if Epik deems it is the recipient of activities caused by your site that threaten the stability of its network. You agree that Epik, in its sole discretion and without liability to you, may refuse to accept the registration of any domain name. Epik also may in its sole discretion and without liability to you delete the registration of any domain name during the first thirty (30) days after registration has taken place.

Further, You may not use the Site or the Services provided through or in connection with the Site to: (a) defame, abuse, harass, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; (b) conduct or forward illegal contests, pyramid schemes, or chain letters; (c) publish, post, distribute, disseminate or link to any: (i) unlawful content, topic, material, or information, any of which are of an obscene, adult, nude, prurient, or indecent nature; (ii) software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, copyright licenses, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary rights, unless You own, control such rights or have received all necessary consents for Your use of such software and other materials; (iii) software or other material that contains viruses, corrupted files, or that may or are intended to damage the operation of another`s computer (e.g., "cracks," "hacks," or other programs written to defeat the security measures of any computer, system or programs); (d) sell, distribute, disseminate or link to any sites for marketing, sales or distribution of: firearms, explosives, ammunition, liquor, tobacco products, food that is not packaged or does not comply with all applicable laws for sale to consumers by commercial merchants, pharmaceuticals and controlled substances, counterfeit, pirated or stolen goods, fraudulent goods, any goods or services that infringe or otherwise violate a third party`s rights, registered or unregistered securities, goods or services that: (i) You cannot legally sell, (ii) are misrepresented, and/or (iii) if sold, would cause Epik to violate any law, statute or regulation; (e)harvest or otherwise collect information about third parties, including email addresses, without the express consent of such third parties; (f) restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying its rights in the Services or the Site, interfering with or disrupting the Services or the Site service or servers or network connected to the Site; (g) use a Domain in connection with Your use of the Site that is confusing or misleading to other Users or to the public; (h) email or otherwise transmit, distribute, publish or disseminate any "junk email," "Spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of duplicative or inappropriate solicitations or messages (commercial or otherwise); (i) violate the rights of any third parties, including, but not limited to, trademark, naming or publicity rights, or (j) violate any applicable government laws or regulations. Epik does not condone or allow Spam. Epik will cooperate with legal authorities and Internet service providers in releasing information about users who violate this Acceptable Use Policy.

You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products, services or benefits obtained from the Site, except as expressly provided herein. At all times, You remain solely responsible for Your Information.
 
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Nut cases going to write wherever they have an audience. PPL post weird/illegal stuff on facebook and everywhere! If 8chan is known to nurture bad ideas like this, then it's FBI etc job to order it shut it down, not host or domain provider. Hosting providers, registry ppl can't be held accountable to police the whole internet traffic though their service. Don't let your S^$t roll down hill.
 
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Every race is guilty of racism. To the best of my understanding, white people are the least racist people on earth, yet they get most of the blames. That's not fair.

We have "Black Caucus" in the USA Congress, to what end? That is pure racism in plain sight that shouldn't be condoned. The whole world would go mad if ever there's something called White Caucus in the USA Congress or anywhere. But because it's black, everyone pretends that is ok.

We always see Africans saying they are the best, you see Arabs saying they are the best, you see Asians saying they are the best. But once the White-men says they are the best, it comes racism. Why?

We are free in this world today because of white people and I salute them for that. I salute them for technological inventions of which they are responsible for the 99%. I salute them for democracy and freedom. I salute them for promoting equality among all men. They are the reason the world is free today. I salute them for the countless battles they fought to prevent Persians from conquering the world which would have plunged humanity into darkness. I salute them for education, science, and medicine. For finding cures to countless of diseases that could have wiped us all years ago.

Yes, they have their short-falls and so do every other race. The earlier we stopped criminalizing white people for their existence, the better. If other people can speak of their racial pride without fear, why should the white be afraid to do the same. or be held accountable for doing the same?

We overly blame white people for everything, that's why some of their offspring are trying to fight back in the wrong way. let us stop apportioning blames for merely existing and look for the good in everyone.

Cheers!
Black-man

You should learn more about history.
 
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In my opinion the hosting platform should be the one that must censor certain stuff by using their TOS power. I do not see any particular reason why the registrar should be held responsible for what is happening on that specific domain.

This is only an abuse so their registrar company image wouldn't be affected negatively, nothing more.

"the hosting platform should be the one that must censor certain stuff" So say, twitter has it's hand clean, it doesn't have to censor what's on it's site? Known war criminals use twitter every single day. Just the HOST is responsible? Why would anyone be in business as a host, if this were the case? QUIT passing the ball to the peons, or soon you'll have yo' mama censoring your every post, maybe the ISP should be scanning out traffic too, to make sure no illegal stuff is being sent though their centers. It's so easy, right?
 
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So with gab and 8chan having found homes at Epik, the question is....

Is a registrar responsible for content or is it the webhost that should do the censoring?

Was cloudflare right to boot them off?

Or should there simply be no censorship?

What about consequences?
Pls check the screenshot...what you say?
Screenshot_2019-08-05-19-01-39-17.png
 
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So with gab and 8chan having found homes at Epik, the question is....

Is a registrar responsible for content or is it the webhost that should do the censoring?

Was cloudflare right to boot them off?

Or should there simply be no censorship?

What about consequences?

Internet-censorship will not remove any crazy people from this world.
There need to be other methods in order to prevent crazy people from doing crazy things.

It seems we are moving back into times of the DDR with Farcebook and Twatter behaving like STASI-agents.
Internet-censorship will only make things worse.
 
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dande said:
We are free in this world today because of white people and I salute them for that. I

Cheers!
I agree with some what you said but ^
Has absolutely nothing to do with race.

I'd suggest to get and study 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' by 'Jared Diamond' for those who want to make an educated comment.

The 'white-man' just got lucky.
 
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On subject, that's some poorly written piece from a journalistic point of view.
 
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Every race is guilty of racism. To the best of my understanding, white people are the least racist people on earth, yet they get most of the blames. That's not fair.

We have "Black Caucus" in the USA Congress, to what end? That is pure racism in plain sight that shouldn't be condoned. The whole world would go mad if ever there's something called White Caucus in the USA Congress or anywhere. But because it's black, everyone pretends that is ok.

We always see Africans saying they are the best, you see Arabs saying they are the best, you see Asians saying they are the best. But once the White-men says they are the best, it comes racism. Why?

We are free in this world today because of white people and I salute them for that. I salute them for technological inventions of which they are responsible for the 99%. I salute them for democracy and freedom. I salute them for promoting equality among all men. They are the reason the world is free today. I salute them for the countless battles they fought to prevent Persians from conquering the world which would have plunged humanity into darkness. I salute them for education, science, and medicine. For finding cures to countless of diseases that could have wiped us all years ago.

Yes, they have their short-falls and so do every other race. The earlier we stopped criminalizing white people for their existence, the better. If other people can speak of their racial pride without fear, why should the white be afraid to do the same. or be held accountable for doing the same?

We overly blame white people for everything, and the people who promotes and sponsor these mindset are the real racist bad people who are trying to takeover this world. These people still practice barbarism till this day. Let us unite and fight them. Let us stop apportioning blames to the white man for merely existing. Let us look for the good in everyone.

Cheers!
Nature is racist, unfortunately.

It's been a tough realization.
 
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8chan, Megaphone for Gunmen, Has Gone Dark. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creator.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html

“Shut the site down,” Mr. Brennan said in an interview. “It’s not doing the world any good. It’s a complete negative to everybody except the users that are there. And you know what? It’s a negative to them, too. They just don’t realize it.”
 
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Every race is guilty of racism. To the best of my understanding, white people are the least racist people on earth, yet they get most of the blames. That's not fair.

We have "Black Caucus" in the USA Congress, to what end? That is pure racism in plain sight that shouldn't be condoned. The whole world would go mad if ever there's something called White Caucus in the USA Congress or anywhere. But because it's black, everyone pretends that is ok.

We always see Africans saying they are the best, you see Arabs saying they are the best, you see Asians saying they are the best. But once the White-men says they are the best, it comes racism. Why?

We are free in this world today because of white people and I salute them for that. I salute them for technological inventions of which they are responsible for the 99%. I salute them for democracy and freedom. I salute them for promoting equality among all men. They are the reason the world is free today. I salute them for the countless battles they fought to prevent Persians from conquering the world which would have plunged humanity into darkness. I salute them for education, science, and medicine. For finding cures to countless of diseases that could have wiped us all years ago.

Yes, they have their short-falls and so do every other race. The earlier we stopped criminalizing white people for their existence, the better. If other people can speak of their racial pride without fear, why should the white be afraid to do the same. or be held accountable for doing the same?

We overly blame white people for everything, and the people who promotes and sponsor these mindset are the real racist bad people who are trying to takeover this world. These people still practice barbarism till this day. Let us unite and fight them. Let us stop apportioning blames to the white man for merely existing. Let us look for the good in everyone.

Cheers!

Angry as I was, as we all were, I was tempted to laugh whenever he opened his mouth. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
 
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racist-friendly Epik

As long as your a liberal it's perfectly acceptable to incite anger, Internet mobs and condemn people by association.
 
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Every race is guilty of racism. To the best of my understanding, white people are the least racist people on earth, yet they get most of the blames. That's not fair.

We have "Black Caucus" in the USA Congress, to what end? That is pure racism in plain sight that shouldn't be condoned. The whole world would go mad if ever there's something called White Caucus in the USA Congress or anywhere. But because it's black, everyone pretends that is ok.

We always see Africans saying they are the best, you see Arabs saying they are the best, you see Asians saying they are the best. But once the White-men says they are the best, it comes racism. Why?

We are free in this world today because of white people and I salute them for that. I salute them for technological inventions of which they are responsible for the 99%. I salute them for democracy and freedom. I salute them for promoting equality among all men. They are the reason the world is free today. I salute them for the countless battles they fought to prevent Persians from conquering the world which would have plunged humanity into darkness. I salute them for education, science, and medicine. For finding cures to countless of diseases that could have wiped us all years ago.

Yes, they have their short-falls and so do every other race. The earlier we stopped criminalizing white people for their existence, the better. If other people can speak of their racial pride without fear, why should the white be afraid to do the same. or be held accountable for doing the same?

We overly blame white people for everything, and the people who promotes and sponsor these mindset are the real racist bad people who are trying to takeover this world. These people still practice barbarism till this day. Let us unite and fight them. Let us stop apportioning blames to the white man for merely existing. Let us look for the good in everyone.

Cheers!
@dande thinks for himself. He also happens to be kind of accurate.

There are lots of inconvenient truths and facts.

The science of intelligence is over 100 years old.

We don't learn the obscure truths and facts, or at least few do.

They are complicated and we are only ~3000 to 5000 years out of the Bicameral Mind phase. Some are still in it (schizophrenics) and most others in transient states of Consciousness (mostly operating subconsciously)
 
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Noone here has mentioned the roll of firearms in these tragedies.

How many people have to be killed before we realize that these weapons must be carefully permitted to only qualified individuals. The penalties for misuse must be severe.

As to the racism issue, it just plain stupid. Anyone that thinks through the shallow arguments in support of superior or inferior races as a whole will find that all human beings are one species, are born the same, bleed the same, procreate the same, and die the same. Each unique, yet connected.

I really don't subscribe to the negative impact of television and internet media, although I do believe that some desensitization occurs.

There are some mentally ill people out there. Always has been and always will be.

I hope something can be done to prevent these kinds of killing sprees.

I don't blame Epik with trying to be neutral. Let web hosts be web hosts, law enforcement be law enforcement.
 
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so if 8chan publish any controverisal content,
you will judge and sentence anybody that sold them a pizza,
rent them a car, rent them a bicycle and even the taxi who drove them to their office
the guy who rent them an office, rent them anything.....
anybody that have come to do any kind of business with 8chan is guilty and waiting for your sentence

@MapleDots is that your notion of freedom??
 
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No one on here has asked @Rob Monster to contribute even though his company is being called "racist friendly" ?

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Should have the decency when discussing someones business or views to tag them imo.....
 
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We are free in this world today because of white people
@dande you are utterly misguided.

I am from Bengal, India and many people my region fought against EFFING english and died, who colonized India because of some subservient slave minded Indians.

Crazy people exists everywhere among White/Black/Yellow/Brown.
 
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