Congress Tuesday churches testify to the 8CHAN online forum owners after the infamous site was connected to a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22 people. The Committee for National Security House urged to explain the site owner Jim Watkins, will address how the anonymous messaging Council “for the spread of extremist content, including white racist.” In a letter to Watkins signed by the representative. Bennie Thompson and Mike Rogers Rep., The House committee said the El Paso shooting was “least connected to the site, the third act of supremacist violence this year.” “Americans deserve to know what, if anything, do as the owners and operators to prevent the spread of extremist content in 8CHAN at,” he said. The Committee for Homeland Security has a new picture of the letter on Twitter. The notorious Messaging Forum remained cutting relationships online Tuesday after two technology companies. Monday ‘, the service computer company CloudFlare stops delivering what 8CHAN Seattle-based Epik signed, Reuters reports. But Epik own infrastructure provider, Voxility, responded with 8CHAN fall. Fredrick Brennan, creator 8CHAN, must be closed nominated for the site, and told Reuters he regretted that does. The current owner of the message board Watkins is an American web entrepreneurs living in the Philippines. He replied to the letter from Congress on Twitter, the phone offers talk. “Rest assured, I am not an extremist. My phone works around the world,” he said. Social media sites have created in the spread of harmful content on the Internet under greater control for their role. In April it passed a bill to keep social media in Australia responsible for what is shared on the platforms, while the UK posted on its website the social media managers make personally responsible for the proposed content. Picture copyright by Wang Ying Xinhua News Agency / Getty Images
8CHAN owner called before Congress to testify in El Paso shooting
