The comment board popular with white nationalists and mass murderers is going to be someone else's problem after US company Cloudfare announced it will no longer provide internet services to the controversial site.

Over the weekend, a white nationalist posted a poorly-written manifesto on 8chan - a toxic cesspool of racists, misogynists, incels, and other social pariahs - before picking up his AK-47 and going on a murder spree in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.  The gunman used 8chan to boast of his hatred for immigrants and first-generation Americans before he then targeted them in the store, killing 20 people and injuring around 40.

"The rationale is simple," said Matthew Prince, Cloudfare's co-founder and CEO.  "They have proven themselves to be lawless, and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.

"Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit," Prince said, adding that his company's new plan is to scrape off all websites that "directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design".

This was the third time in 2019 that someone involved in a mass murder used 8chan to promote his hate-filled views.  Australian white nationalist terrorist Breton Tarrant put his manifesto on 8chan before live-streaming his shooting spree at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.  And the person charged with the deadly attack on a San Diego-area synagogue also posted his views on 8chan.  

This isn't Prince's first experience with hosting an openly-vile website and getting rid of it when the heat gets to be too much.  In 2017, Cloudfare dropped the neo-nazi website "Daily Stormer", which eventually found a new host. 

Prince acknowledges that 8chan will probably do the same:  "We've solved our own problem, but we haven't solved the Internet's."