Bennan has since repudiated 8chan and has fought for it to be taken offline. Let's not judge him too harshly.
He only apologized for not removing the shooter's manifests. He didn't apologize for GamerGate, CP, racism, neo-nazism, and other terrible things. His words about the 8chan shutdown - “I was not even that upset about that” [1]. You can’t call it “fighting”.
[1] https://jacobinmag.com/2021/04/fredrick-brennan-8chan-intern...