Handing the responsibility for the mass murder on a platform is not much different than blaming books, rock music or TV. There are good things and bad things on the chans. Blocking it would just be a sign of losing control and having no explanation for the deed.

But yes, increasing the pressure on these kind of online spaces seems to have had a overall negative effect. If you don't know the demographic and how gripers react to pressure, you should not preach about the source of radicalization.

And yes, you also will net the ire of people that like their freedom and haven't done anything.

The point remains that crime/radicalization can occur over any site/medium. Banning a site or medium seems heavy-handed unless it exists expressly to facilitate crime/radicalization, in my opinion. TOR, for example, has been a known avenue for the spread of child pornography, yet we don't shut it down.

> But they didn't

Because there was a more convenient option. I think they'll just run their own alternative, especially as domains are cheap. Also, what about that namecoin thing? Seems like a workaround.