8chan owner called before U.S. 議会, as 最新の host 減少（する）s 場所／位置
By Katie Paul and Elizabeth Culliford
Aug 6 (Reuters) - Online message board 8chan's fortunes より悪くするd on Tuesday, as the 場所／位置 was once again made homeless by a technical services provider and its owner was called to 証言する before the U.S. 議会 after 8chan was linked to the 週末 集まり 狙撃 in El Paso, Texas.
The 衆議院 母国 安全 委員会 需要・要求するd that owner Jim Watkins, an American living in the Philippines, 証言する about 8chan's 成果／努力s to 演説（する）／住所 "the 増殖 of 極端論者 content, 含むing white supremacist content."
The 委員会's Democratic chairman, Bennie Thompson, and マイク Rogers, the 委員会's 最高位の 共和国の／共和党の, sent a letter to Watkins asking him to appear before the 委員会, 公式文書，認めるing that the El Paso 大虐殺 "is at least the third 行為／法令／行動する of supremacist 暴力／激しさ linked to your website this year."
8chan was offline on Tuesday after Seattle-based Epik became the 最新の provider to 削減（する） 関係. In a 声明, Epik's 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, 略奪する Monster, 特記する／引用するd 関心s about the 場所／位置's "不十分な 施行 and the elevated 可能性 of violent radicalization."
In the ひどく Hispanic city of El Paso on Saturday, a 銃器携帯者／殺しや killed 22 people at a Walmart 蓄える／店. 当局 have 特記する／引用するd a 非常に長い anti-移民，移住（する） manifesto, 明らかに 地位，任命するd on 8chan by the 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う, as 証拠 the 流血／虐殺 was 人種上 動機づけるd.
After the 狙撃, U.S. cyber 安全 会社／堅い CloudFlare withdrew services from 8chan, 誘発するing it to 調印する up with Epik on Monday. Epik's own web 組織／基盤／下部構造 provider, Voxility, dropped it as a 顧客 in 返答.
Epik still 供給するs services to neo-Nazi 場所／位置 the Daily Stormer and "解放する／自由な-speech" 場所／位置 Gab, 同様に as InfoWars, a website run by 共謀 理論家 Alex Jones.
Monster told Reuters that the anonymity on 8chan differentiated it from other 場所／位置s. "Nobody has a vested 利益／興味 in personal accountability since you always get a new persona," he said.
Fredrick Brennan, who created 8chan in 2013, has called for the 場所／位置 to be の近くにd 負かす／撃墜する. "If I could go 支援する and not create 8chan at all, I probably would," he told Reuters in an interview, に例えるing it to Frankenstein's monster.
8chan did not 答える／応じる to a Reuters request for comment.
But in a ビデオ 地位，任命するd on YouTube on Tuesday, 8chan's Watkins argued the 場所／位置 供給するd a space for 解放する／自由な speech.
"Think of 8chan as a large community of 1 million people that are now looking for a home," said Watkins, with a shadowy likeness of American 設立するing father Benjamin Franklin behind him.
Watkins （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the Texas 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd shooter's manifesto was first uploaded not to 8chan but to Instagram, the photo-株ing app owned by Facebook.
A Facebook spokeswoman said the company has 設立する "nothing that supports this theory" in an 調査 現在進行中の since Saturday. Facebook 無能にするd the 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd shooter's Instagram account, which had not been active in over a year, she 追加するd. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Elizabeth Culliford and Katie Paul Editing by Leslie Adler)
