My knowledge of website mechanics is decades outdated,so if the question is ignorant, excuse it.

Wouldn't the first step of cleaning a server of outside influence be to disconnect it from the internet so further damage can be prevented? Or is everything under some encrypted thing that overrides any attempts to circumvent the problem?

I imagine 4chan will reappear eventually, possibly without its archives. If I were Mr Potus,I would insist on it for security reasons:I want the kooks of the world ranting in monitored forums so they can be kept an eye on easily. And I am sure those interested in manufacturing opinion have lost much ground in distribution of their brands of propaganda. I was a habitual haunter of /ic/,and was recently posting the 180+ strips of a comic I did,and suddenly this happens.