It is clearly a political move to remove 8chan from Cloudflare. It has forced a lot of people to find other places to talk. It has dispersed a peacefully assembled group of people talking. This silenced them effectively. Jim Watkins Read Quote
There’s probably 30 or 40,000 domain names associated with my name. Very few of them I have had anything to do with. Jim Watkins Read Quote
If 8chan comes back online, it will be done when 8chan develops additional tools to counter illegal content under United States law. Jim Watkins Read Quote
No single platform can sensibly prevent all hateful, illegal or threatening speech – it can only act in due time to remove it. Jim Watkins Read Quote
My company has no intention of deleting constitutionally protected hate speech. I feel the remedy for this type of speech is counter speech, and I’m certain that this is the view of the American justice system. Jim Watkins Read Quote
There are no algorithms for content moderation in place. All 8chan moderation relies on human volunteers and one automated ‘bot’ account to remove illegal content or spam, automated or human, based only on keywords. Jim Watkins Read Quote
Our company has built and maintained a digital forum that is the place where opposing viewpoints and those of minorities such as the LGBTQ may express themselves free from the fear of their life. Jim Watkins Read Quote
