A young girl attending a vigil for the victims of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, in Grand Army Plaza on Aug 5, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The deadly El Paso shooting has prompted fresh calls for online firms to step up efforts to weed out calls to violence. — AFP
WASHINGTON: Efforts to take down the 8chan website where a racist "manifesto" was posted shortly before the El Paso shooting highlight the legal and ethical difficulties in curbing online hate speech that foments violence.
The digital security firm Cloudflare said Sunday it was terminating its services to 8chan, making it more difficult for the message board to remain online.
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