After last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, companies are struggling again with the problem of supporting sites associated with white supremacy. In this case, it’s the forum 8chan, where the killer apparently posted a racist rant justifying his attack. Cloudflare terminated its relationship with 8chan, and when the site began working with competitor Epik, web services company Voxility also banned Epik from renting server space.

Cloudflare also emphasized that 8chan likely isn’t going anywhere. Keeping a website online can be a delicate business; there are lots of ways to make a domain temporarily inaccessible or stop it from making money. In the long term, however, keeping a site completely offline can be harder. That’s one of…

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