Voxility shuts down Epik/Bitmitigate/8chan

[blogslut]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/5/20754943/8chan-epik-offline-voxility-service-cutoff-hate-speech-ban

Internet hate forum 8chan has gone dark after web services company Voxility banned the site — and also banned 8chan’s new host Epik, which had been leasing web space from it. Epik began working with 8chan today after web services giant Cloudflare cut off service, following the latest of at least three mass shootings linked to 8chan. But Stanford researcher Alex Stamos noted that Epik seemed to lease servers from Voxility, and when Voxility discovered the content, it cut ties with Epik almost immediately.

“As soon as we were notified of the content that Epik was hosting, we made the decision to totally ban them,” Voxility business development VP Maria Sirbu told The Verge. Sirbu said it was unlikely that Voxility would work with Epik again. “This is the second situation we’ve had with the reseller and this is not tolerable,” she said...

[BigmanPigman]

1. I'm trying to understand this.

I read it three times and am starting to, but what is Epik?

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

3. Epik is the company hosting the software for 8Chan

I think the physical servers were owned by Voxility, and they said 'fuck that' to 8Chan and Epik.

Epik's owner is one of those "freeze peeches" types that offered to host Gab (white nationalist twitter) and The Daily Stormer after both were booted from their previous hosting services.

[Downtown Hound]

2. Waiting for conservatives to whine about censorship in 3...2...1...

[mia]

4. "...the layered infrastructure that powers the internet...."

...At the top of the stack are the apps and social media services that users interact with directly. These include social media platforms like [The Democratic Underground], Facebook and Twitter, music apps like Spotify, blogging platforms like WordPress and online stores like Etsy and Amazon.

Next are the hosting and routing layers that make all these services available. The hosting layer is pretty complicated, but for the sake of brevity we can include everything from web hosts like GoDaddy and Dreamhost to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and even domain name registration companies like Web.com or Network Solutions. If we think about what technologies “enable” the higher layers, we should even include payment processors like Venmo and Paypal, and credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard at this level.

At the bottom of the stack are the largely invisible companies that actually connect individuals and organizations to the internet and ensure its basic functionality. These include internet service providers like Comcast and telephone companies like Verizon, as well as content delivery networks (CDN) and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) protection services like Akamai and Cloudflare, and domain name service (DNS) providers like OpenDNS (now Cisco Umbrella) and Dyn (now Oracle Dyn)....

But with right-wing extremism and terrorism running rampant on social media, more and more companies at all levels of the infrastructure stack are grappling with their roles and responsibilities in diffusing hate. The 2018 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 51 people lost their lives, laid bare the truth of so-called autodidactic radicalization: The killer cemented his radicalization on social media, chose to broadcast his terror on social media, and peppered his manifesto and video with references to extremist social media memes....

https://www.fairobserver.com/business/technology/alt-tech-far-right-online-extremism-hate-speech-technology-news-19919/