The owner of the 8chan chat forum has described moves to shut down his website because it hosted hate messages linked to deadly US killings as “sinister” and “cowardly”. In a video uploaded to Youtube on Tuesday, Philippines-based Jim Watkins said the deadly weekend attacks in the American cities of El Paso and Dayton were a tragedy. But Watkins insisted 8chan had not broken any laws, and devoted most of his seven-and-a-half-minute video to criticising […]