8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline

2020-10-19 04:03

Previous appeals to VanwaTech to disconnect these sites have fallen on deaf ears, as the company's owner Nick Lim reportedly has been working with 8kun's administrators to keep the sites online in the name of protecting free speech.

Based CNServers LLC. On Sunday evening, security researcher Ron Guilmette placed a phone call to CNServers' owner, who professed to be shocked by revelations that his company was helping QAnon and 8kun keep the lights on.

Within minutes of that call, CNServers told its customer - Spartan Host Ltd., which is registered in Belfast, Northern Ireland - that it would no longer be providing DDoS protection for the set of 254 Internet addresses that Spartan Host was routing on behalf of VanwaTech.

According to Guilmette, Spartan Host's relationship with VanwaTech wasn't widely known previously because Spartan Host had set up what's known as a "Private peering" agreement with VanwaTech.

After three mass shootings in 2019 revealed the perpetrators had spread their manifestos on 8chan and even streamed their killings live there, 8chan was ostracized by one Internet provider after another.

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