On Saturday, a manifesto attributed to Patrick Crusius, the alleged El Paso shooter, was posted on 8chan, an image board where anyone can post images or content, and is known to be politically incorrect, with no monitoring from site administration. Cloudflare, a system that protects websites from cyber attacks, dropped 8chan and blamed the website for “inspiring” mass murder.
Cloudfare did this to avoid bad publicity before their pending IPO. According to 8chan owner, Jim Watkins, the manifesto was copied from somewhere else and posted by some one other than Patrick Crusius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxlUgNSLqvo&t=0s
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