After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets

Website known for behavior banned by mainstream platforms was chosen by mosque shooter to announce his deadly plan

In response to the massacre of 50 worshipers at two Christchurch mosques by a single shooter, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday that New Zealand will ban military-style semiautomatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. Photo: Getty Images

Robert McMillan

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Updated March 20, 2019 9:41 pm ET

Fredrick Brennan founded the website 8chan more than five years ago as a no-holds-barred bastion of unconstrained speech devoted to critiquing what he saw as the authoritarianism of leftist culture and politics.

Now, he says, it has gone too far.

Mr. Brennan, a former Brooklynite who cut ties with the site in December, said he believed 8chan’s...