Can 8chan be taken down?

August 09, 2019

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Can 8chan be taken down?

8chan is the site that has hosted all kinds of horrible shooter manifestos. It can be taken down. In fact it lost its DNS protection through CloudFlare. The question is: will it come back up? It probably will.

Is it possible to hack the Boeing 787?

Probably not. Though they did very stupidly leave a lot of code open on the Internet that somebody found. He analyzed it and thought that maybe he could get in through the inflight system and then control the plane. That would not be good at all.

What does Donald Trump have against Sundar Pichai?

Pichai is the CEO of Google. Trump has been hate tweeting him. Why has he been doing that? Well a lot of people at Google are Democrats. Trump would really like them to be more subservient. There are some Republicans at Google who feel beleaguered but mostly it's Trump trying to kind of game the system, trying to work the rest, try and get Google to act as favorably towards him in the next election as possible.

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