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| 2019 || August 5 || Shut down || Canadian internet services company {{w|Tucows}} stops hosting 8chan domain registration.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tucows Drops 8chan Domain Registration After El Paso Shooting |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2019/08/05/tucows-drops-8chan-domain-registration-after-el-paso-shooting/#44184fccffbf |website=forbes.com |accessdate=11 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Canadian internet services company Tucows stops hosting 8chan domain in wake of El Paso mass shooting |url=https://www.pembrokeobserver.com/news/canada/tucows-8chan/wcm/bea5a016-23c1-4793-8e44-aa91c3b36b96 |website=pembrokeobserver.com |accessdate=11 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Canadian internet services company Tucows stops hosting 8chan domain in wake of El Paso mass shooting |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/tucows-8chan |website=nationalpost.com |accessdate=11 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August 5 || Shut down || {{w|Cloudflare}} terminates its service to 8chan citing its connection to various shootings across the United States. The Cloudflare Blog states "8chan is among the more than 19 million Internet properties that use Cloudflare's service. We just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time. The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths. Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ |title=Terminating Service for 8Chan |website=Cloudflare Blog}}</ref> After being offline for a few hours, 8chan starts running on Cloudflare competitor BitMitigate, a service hosted from a cloud platform company called Voxility , which would subsequently remove BitMitigate from its network.<ref>{{cite web |title=8chan, the infamous message board linked to the El Paso shooting, was briefly back up before getting taken down again by another service provider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/8chan-el-paso-shooting-daily-stormer-cloudflare-bitmitigate-voxility-2019-8 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August 6 || Shut down || {{w|Rob Monster}}, founder and chief executive officer of domain registrar and hosting provider [[w:Epik (domain registrar)|Epik]], posts a statement explaining that it has decided to not provide hosting-related services to 8chan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Epik draws line on Acceptable Use |url=https://epik.com/blog/epik-draws-line-on-acceptable-use.html |website=epik.com |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=8chan dumped by service known for hosting racist sites |url=https://mashable.com/article/epik-8chan/ |website=mashable.com |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref> The announcement marks a reversal, as on the previous day Jim Watkins tweeted that he had begun using BitMitigate, which is subsidiary of Epik, to protect 8chan from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Macuk |first1=Anthony |title=Epik reverses course, says BitMitigate will not support 8chan |url=https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/aug/06/epik-reverses-course-says-bitmitigate-will-not-support-8chan/ |website=columbian.com |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref> Epik, which resells services from Voxility and other companies, had been booted by the latter, with the result of sites such as 8chan being trickled down.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Far Right’s Internet Protector Goes Down After Taking In 8chan |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xw4ea/the-far-rights-internet-protector-goes-down-after-taking-in-8chan |website=vice.com |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August 6 || Legal || Authorities in the Philippines launch probe into 8chan in order to investigate the owners of the website to determine whether they were negligent in dealing with far-right users of the platform who have created an atmosphere that encourages mass shootings.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bowden |first1=John |title=Police in Philippines launch probe into 8chan: report |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/police-in-philippines-launch-probe-into-8chan-report/ar-AAFwFGX |website=msn.com |accessdate=8 August 2019}}</ref>
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