[20] Monster was replaced after Epik co-mingled millions of dollars of customer Escrow funds into general company spending.

[21] He learned about Gab, a far-right social network, in 2018 when the company received media attention after it was discovered that the perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting had used the service to post extremist content.

[2] He has received media attention for publicly defending violent neo-Nazi Gab users, maligning people who criticize the site and call for stricter moderation, and making unevidenced claims that racist users are fake accounts created to hurt the site's reputation.

[2][8] Shortly after agreeing to host Gab, Monster contacted the King County Sheriff's Office to report a suspicious vehicle in his neighborhood, saying that it could be linked to threats he was receiving from "radical leftists.

"[17] He would contact the Sheriff's Office to report several more threats, including a "glitter bomb" he received in the mail and his neighbours having files about Monster being put on their property.

[17] After the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, Monster made a post on Gab informing users where they could find the shooter's manifesto on a peer-to-peer network he called "effectively uncensorable", and suggested his web service could also be used this way.

[17] Monster later told CNN that he did not intend to use the shooting as a marketing ploy, saying that the link to the shooter's manifesto and the promotional content "should not have been in the same post.

Monster wrote the day after the ban from Voxility that he had changed his decision to provide services to the imageboard site due to them "propagat[ing] hate.

It's built on Raspberry Pi, an inexpensive single-board computer and runs a Linux-based operating system named TokiOS.

The servers use technology that Toki says could filter content to avoid some sources of information, or bypass local censorship rules.

[29] Joan Donovan, the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, has compared the goals of Toki and eRise to the controversial Internet.org project: "We've seen a similar tactic by Facebook, to provide digital access points that can also serve the purpose of delivering favorable content and ensuring that these groups become dependent on your benevolence...

"[2] The Daily Telegraph said in 2021 that "his comments veer between free speech protectionism and implying support for the type of content his clients carry".

Bobby Allyn wrote for NPR in February 2021: "Yet his self-professed boundaries become squishy upon examination", giving an example where Monster "demurred" on questions about Epik's choice to platform Gab, where white supremacist founder of The Daily Stormer Andrew Anglin had 17,000 followers as of the story's publication.

"[10] In December 2018, Monster shared on Gab a video created by Canadian white nationalist Faith Goldy, in which she described migrants as bringing "rape epidemics, sharia law, and the spectacle of terror.

"[2] In January 2019, Monster appeared as a guest on The People's Square, a podcast hosted by pseudonymous white nationalist Eric Striker.

The SPLC criticized him for appearing on the show and for comments he made about white supremacist and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, including "He's actually a pretty clever guy, he's articulate.

Monster later told the SPLC in an interview that he did not know who Striker was when he agreed to speak with him, and that he "disagrees with Duke's racist worldview but respects his intelligence".

[11] In an interview with NPR in February 2021, Monster suggested that leaders in the white supremacist movement are "shock jocks" and should not be taken seriously.

David Kaye, law professor at the University of California, Irvine and an expert in online speech, said of Monster's comment: "He can say they're just 'shock jocks,' but what we actually see is real world harm coming from the platforms.

[27] In a 2018 comment on an Epik blog post explaining why the registrar accepted Gab's business, he wrote "I have many Jewish friends, and have been called 'Mensch' many times".