FROM AN ARTICLE YESTERDAY.  https://beta.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/12/helicopter-repairman-leader-internets-darkest-reaches-life-times-chan-owner-jim-watkins "Watkins last week was photographed on Capitol Hill with a scruffy mustache, mutton-chop sideburns and a flag pin on his tie of Mississippi, the home state of Thompson, the committee’s top Democrat, who had subpoenaed him. He wore another pin on his collar of the LETTER Q, probably a reference to the 8chan-rooted fringe conspiracy theory QAnon, which claims that President Trump is secretly working to disrupt a sprawling cabal of world-dominating pedophiles. He said 8chan workers — led by the site’s administrator, his son Ron Watkins — were building a protective network to guard against the service-denying cyberattacks that some people expect vigilante hackers will unleash if the site attempts a return. That network, he said, would serve as a replacement for Cloudflare, the company that had helped shield the site until last month, when its chief executive terminated service for what he called 8chan’s “lawless … cesspool of hate.” Watkins said his son and other 8chan workers were aiming to bring the site back online as early as this week. Ron Watkins has also publicly suggested in recent days that he had given “serious thought” to launching a communications satellite that could help beam 8chan around the world. “Not an expert on space law, but seems like such a setup would have absolutely no jurisdiction and be uncensorable,” he tweeted."