EndChan
EndChan is an internet imageboard with different conversation threads, where users can post with names or anonymously, that opened in 2015.[1] It became popular after a similar website, 8chan, was taken offline in August 2019. EndChan describes itself as "an anonymous image-board that promotes ideas over identity", according to The Guardian.[2]
Rise of popularity[edit]
In August 2019, after three terrorists posted far-right manifestos on imageboard 8chan within six months, this website was taken offline by its host server.[3] Alternatives to the popular 8chan include the older imageboard 4chan, as well as a variety of others that have not seen as much popularity.[3] At the time, EndChan was a new website, and its lack of reputation attracted former 8chan users to it;[2] other websites had been posting advertisements to attract users from 8chan. One message on EndChan describes the situation as being "[driven] into exile", with Le Monde saying the website is where many 8chan users have taken refuge.[3] The EndChan Twitter has reported that "[a] large influx of 8ch[an] refugees [...] hit us" which "drastically chang[ed] the pace in which the site operates" (sic), causing them to add an extra global moderator.[1][3]
Bærum mosque shooting[edit]
A user with the name Philip Manshaus, the name of the perpetrator of a shooting attack at a mosque in Bærum, Norway posted messages on EndChan shortly before the attack; the board was initially misidentified as both 4chan and 8chan in media.[2] The nature of the websites, rather than their individual existence, has been criticized as enabling and promoting terrorism.[3] Manshaus' messages referred to the three shootings in the six months preceding that caused the shut-down of 8chan, praising the attackers and suggesting he would attack himself.[2]
The EndChan twitter account announced after the attack that Manshaus's thread, which was in a politics board said to denounce violence, had been quickly taken down by moderators. It also explained that no manifesto had been posted by Manshaus before the thread was deleted.[1][3]
The shooting prompted the website to enter the radar of internet extremism researchers.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 EndChan (2019-08-11). "We just confirmed that someone claiming to be the Oslo shooter posted their Facebook stream and imgur links on our user-run politics board (which has denounced violence). Its moderators have deleted the thread. A manifesto was not posted". @EndChanXYZ. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Burke, Jason (2019-08-11). "Norway mosque attack suspect 'inspired by Christchurch and El Paso shootings'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "De l'attentat de Christchurch à celui en Norvège, le forum extrémiste 8chan a migré". Le Monde (in français). 2019-08-12. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
- ↑ "Mistænkt for moskeangreb så op til massemordere – nu mobbes han af sine egne på nettet - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in dansk). 2019-08-12. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
External links[edit]
- Official Tor site: enxx3byspwsdo446jujc52ucy2pf5urdbhqw3kbsfhlfjwmbpj5smdad.onion
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