"Instead, extremism experts said that tackling the epidemic of extremist views being shared online required a large, collaborative effort that includes both lawmakers in Washington and the likes of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. 'Online platforms like 8chan have helped extremist ideologies go global,' David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project, told VICE News. 'If 8chan is shut down completely, then it is incumbent on tech firms to continue to act in a similar manner to keep such content and users off the surface web as they migrate from platform to platform.'"