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8chan was created in October 2013 by computer programmer Fredrick Brennan. [17] [18] [19] Brennan created the website after observing what he perceived to be rapidly escalating surveillance and a loss of free speech on the Internet. [5]
8kun, which was formerly known as 8chan, is an imageboard website that has been linked to white supremacism, neo-Nazism, the alt-right, child pornography, racism, and antisemitism, hate crimes, and multiple mass shootings.
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Nicholas Lim (born 1997 or 1998) is a technology entrepreneur and software developer based in Vancouver, Washington. [1] [2] Lim and his companies provide services to alt-tech, far-right and neo-Nazi websites, such as The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi message board website, 8chan, the home of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, and Kiwi Farms, a harassment [3] [4] [1] [5] and anti-trans [6] forum.
Fredrick Brennan was born on February 21, 1994, in Albany, New York. [3] [4] He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), commonly known as brittle bone disease, which stunted his growth and requires him to use a wheelchair.
Due to the fact tripcodes can be cracked given enough time, some imageboards, such as 4chan and 8chan, implement a "secure" tripcode. [3] Such tripcodes are not reproducible across different imageboards; they work by prepending a secure salt to the tripcode which, barring intrusion, is known only to the server owner. [3]
Brennan has since become an outspoken critic of 8chan and of Watkins, and has actively battled to try to keep the site offline. [4] [8] [23] In 2019, the perpetrators of the March Christchurch mosque shootings, the April Poway synagogue shooting, and the August El Paso shooting all used 8chan to disseminate their respective manifestos.
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