White-supremacy website 8chan is in deep, deep trouble. (Kiddie-porn trouble.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/8chan-refugees-worried-theyre-downloading-child-porn-on-peer-to-peer-site-zeronet?ref=home
The web security company Cloudflare announced Sunday that it would stop providing protection for 8chan, and the site has been intermittently offline due to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as 8chan moderators search for a new service. When Bitmitigate, another web security company, tried to take 8chan on as a client, Bitmitigates partners cut ties, once again taking 8chan offline.
While the site is down, some 8chan fans have turned to a peer-to-peer version of the site, which not even 8chans admins endorse.
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While the peer-to-peer model is harder to take offline, it also turns 8chan users computers into hosts for the website. That means potentially downloading and redistributing content from the 8chan Zeronet site, which hosts a board called Child Porn.
Say someones a f****t and uploads cp [child porn], one Zeronet user wondered on Wednesday, as 8chan users flooded Zeronets discussion board. If i happen to download it, it gets shared from my computer, right? And if i dont notice it bunch of people can download it from me? So im a distrubutor at that point, arent i?
Fortunately for Zeronet users, their computers will only download and host content from pages theyve clicked on. Unfortunately for 8chan fans, the website is home to images of gore, porn, sexualized drawings of children and sometimes illegal child pornography (which 8chan bans, in theory).
A Zeronet spokesperson told The Daily Beast 8chan content would be downloaded to visitors' computers, although they could delete it later.
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Elsewhere, the conversation devolved into a discussion of whether illegal porn was really just an illegal combination of 0s and 1s online, and whether banning child porn was censorship.
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Why is everyone here so MEAN? the title of one Zeronet discussion thread read on Wednesday. I get it guys, we're all a little mad about the whole 8chan debacle, but SERIOUSLY, calm down! No need for all this racism/anti-semitism/homophobia.
The conversation almost immediately turned to users calling each other racist slurs and debating whether sexualized cartoons of children were pedophilic.