State officials have estimated that between 7 and 13 people have been killed at a mass shooting the Umpqua Community College in Oregon. Media outlets have drawn a link between the shooter and /r9k/, a board for social recluses on the 4chan imageboard, based on an anonymous post made there the day before the shooting. A number of outlets including Ars Technica, Jezebel, and the UK’s Daily Mail have drawn attention to posts on the 4chan imageboard the day before the shooting, in which an anonymous poster warning board users “not to go to school in the northwest tomorrow” because “some of you are alright.” Aside from the coincidental timing, there is no evidence to link the anonymous post to the shooter. With the shooter now reported to be dead, it is unlikely that any such evidence will be forthcoming. Nonetheless, federal law enforcement officials are currently looking into the 4chan thread, according to the New York Times. Some commentators and journalists have taken the opportunity to launch an attack on 4chan as a whole. The Daily Mail’s report, for example, calls the site an “internet cesspool” used to spread “the most vile material.” The article also links the site to