The owners of 8chan, the old bulletin board that was filled with hate speech and housed the diatribes of at least 3 massive shooters, are preparing to relaunch the site with a new call, and need their former passionate hate speech users to catch up. .
The site will be recovered and relaunched under the so-called 8kun, and its owner, NT Technology, calls the operators of the old newsletter forums on 8chan to touch them to restart them.
In a tweet Wednesday, traders said, “If you had the board in the past on 8chan, email us at [email protected] with your shared secret if you need to migrate your dashboard to 8kun.”
“Shared secret” refers to an account recovery formula that includes a randomly generated password that is given to card owners only once. If your table is hacked, directors can send the password to the 8chan administrator to retrieve the board.
8chan was disconnected in the wake of the el paso shooting in August, when Internet infrastructure corporations such as Cloudflare withdrew their support.
The guy suspected of leading the bloodbath at El Paso Walmart on August 3 posted a four-page perorata on 8chan in an attempt to commit his actions. In March, the guy who allegedly killed dozens of people in two New Zealand mosques placed a boundary on the site just before the attack. Weeks later, the suspect in the shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, did the same.
So far, very little is known about what Jim Watkins, owner of NT Technology, and his son Ron, who is the administrator of 8chan, plan with 8kun.
8kun’s official Twitter account released a Hollywood-style video on Sunday revealing the 8kun call and logo (a snake like 8) with the video with flames, thunder and lightning, and very dramatic music.
The call turns out to be an attempt to show that the online page is growing. In Japanese, the suffix “chan” refers to a child, while “kun” refers to a young man.
The new online page is offline, however, it was registered with Tucows, the same company that banned 8chan in August. Tucows told VICE News that he was unaware of the stage and was reviewing it.
READ: How 8chan was born, and it has become the worst position on the Internet
Ron Watkins, who has consistently promised to return for 8chan in recent months, tweeted on Sunday: “After a few weeks of building new foundations for greater user privacy and security, we are now in the final stages before putting things back online. Beta testing of the ongoing infrastructure – check and confirm that all systems are working as expected ».
In September, in reaction to 8chan’s role in the mass series, the House National Security Committee quoted Jim Watkins to testify in a closed hourly consultation.
READ: The owner of 8chan will tell Congress that he deals with video game tricks and ‘home recipes’. Oh, and mass shootings.
In a list sent to the committee, Watkins said 8chan “could reconnect, but only when 8chan can expand more computers to counter illegal content under U.S. law.”
Fred Brennan, the former founder of 8chan, says the effort to rebuild and replace the brand is a cynical attempt to make other people think 8kun is absolutely different from 8chan.
Brennan says he doesn’t believe many other people will sign up, but says 8kun’s good fortune is based on the return of the QAnon crowd.
QAnon, a crazy conspiracy theory that revolves around the claim that liberal elites in deep states run a child sex trafficking network, has caught the attention of President Trump’s top and ardent MAGA supporters. QAnon supporters appear at Trump’s rallies and the FBI warned that the move can only motivate national terrorists.
The mysterious leader of the “Q” conspiracy theory told his followers that his communications would never happen outside the 8chan gates and that 8chan the platform selected through the army to reveal information.
Then, when 8chan was disconnected in August, the QAnon network went adrift.
“I hope one of your first “drops” in 8kun is to publish a key so that “Q” can use other platforms in the future,” Brennan said. So, if you ask me, it’s so 8kun can never be completely online; if that’s the case, QAnon can spread. Without him, QAnon is necessarily dead.
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