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Rhetoric, only in the united states because of the first amendment. its a very complicated thing. 8chan is not a place that a regular company thats about to ipo would love to have in its portfolio. thats what happened with cloud flair. they said this is enough of this thing and its going to go away. >> it would seem, not to oversimplify this, ben, it would seem that just basically it would be a game of whack a mole. one server shuts them down, they pop up on another. >> it is a game worth playin...

8chan, this message board to which investigators say the el paso shooter posted this manifesto as its being called, has been dropped by the host site, cloudflair, is that necessarily good news for investigators looking for potential threats? >> well, victor, as we find with all crime, its almost like a sense of playing whack a mole where wherever law enforcement focuses, the bad guys always take the path of least resistance and they always move to another platform. this is great news that that p...

The shooting in el paso was preceded by a hateful post on 8chan. cloud flair has terminated their service. it radicalize people and spread hate. im joined by former director of counterterrorism ben rasmussen. unfortunately, ben, i probably have to call you broken record ben because we have had this conversation over and over. but help us understand how the post we saw before the el paso shooting, what it was and how it connects to previous posts. . >> sure. 8chan has become a dumping ground for ...

Been able to get back a up again. >> so cloud fair that initially hosted them, they just pulled them off their service. they said thats enough, we cant do this anymore. cloud flair is about to ipo. they cant deal with an extremist website in their portfolio. were technically hosted by a site called ethic and that site, all of their equipment is hosted by the other thing and they said were not going to deal with any of you. they also host another white nationalist site and this has a cascading ef...

People they have control of their platform. you begin to look at these ads and its really hard to decipher because some of them arent correct facts. very much theyre trying to divide the country. and youre beginning to see tech owners really grapple with the power. what do we do with had content, if its been weaponized, if theres a gray area in between. i spoke to the founder of cloud flair. they power a good part of the internet. he made the decision recently to kick off a neonazi site. it seem...

Im going to continue it on the weekend version of "velshi & ruhle," 12:30 p.m. eastern on saturday with kara swisher of recode because stephanie is not here today and tomorrow. and were going to have this very conversation because its really important. thank you for joining me for it. matthew prince, ceo and co-founder of cloud flare. it might have been the presidents worst week yet. is there anything he can do to turn things around? and tina fey had her own advice for dealing with hate groups. ...

That the daily stormer is a neo-nazi site on the fact they claim you by not booting them off were supporting them. >> it was a series of events. starting about three months ago we got reports when people would complain about abusive content on the daily stormer and send those reports to them and to their host, that the daily stormers team would actually -- the report said they would harass, stalk or otherwise make the lives difficult of the people reporting that abuse. that is just jerk behavior...

The ceo explaining that the daily stormer site was bragging about how cloud flair was onere them. this was the tipping point for me. cloud flare ceo and co-founder matthew prince joins me now. to a lot of people they would think disassociating from a neo-nazi and white supremacist and kkk groups is a very obvious thing but where you sit on west coast, theres a -- its a slightly more layered conversation. whats the issue? >> i think the issue is what the role of various technology companies add v...