"Since hosting provider Cloudfare blocked access to the site - following an announcement revealing that the author of the El Paso shootings in Texas, had posted a racist message on the site a few minutes before the attack on a shopping mall that killed more than 20 people and injured 20 people - users of 8chan fled into the darkest depths of the net, including darknet, an obscure Albanian site and even an alternative Internet based on bitcoins. David Ibsen, Managing Director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) told VICE News: 'Online platforms like 8chan have allowed extremist ideologies to become globalized. If the 8chan site closes completely, then it will be up to the leading companies to follow them to keep this content and these users out of the web as they navigate from one platform to another.'"