Cloudflare Drops Kiwifarm (hate site) in Unprecedented Decision.

Cloudflare says the decision was "Dangerous and Uncomfortable". but also states that the reason that they dropped Kiwifarms was: "We believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life."

Cloudflare's Full Statement:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/

Cloudflare originally denied requests to take down Kiwifarms

Cloudflare indicates services will continue for controversial website Kiwi Farms

Clara Sorrenti, the popular transgender streamer and activist known online as Keffals, says doxing and hate from Kiwi Farms forced her into hiding.

www.cbsnews.com

Kiwifarms later taken down due to a pressure campaign and Says kiwifarm users may lash out harder because of the isolation

https://archive.ph/moIax

(archive link)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/03/cloudflare-drops-kiwifarms/

(WP link)

Edit: link contribution by Krell:

Citing imminent danger Cloudflare drops hate site Kiwi Farms

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Citing an "immediate threat to human life," Cloudflare has dropped the notorious stalking and harassment site Kiwi Farms from its internet…

apnews.com

I'd say good riddance to kiwifarms but cloudflare presents a valid point: just as Stormer and 8chan had done, they will just find another ISP (interent service provider) to come back online with; they had previously been on a russian domain as well.

My take is that cloudflare had no choice despite their misgivings but if the legal system worked faster and bagged Kiwifarms users or at least the founder on the grounds of threatening human life (they have a track record of causing 3 seperate suicide incidents) before cutting them off.

Edit: Statement From the Campaign to remove Kiwifarms.

Edit2: campaign website.

https://www.dropkiwifarms.net/

Quote from zuzuhhaa

i have never heard of that website

TL;DR it coordinates harassments campaigns, labelling targets as "lolcows" or people they can milk for laughs or content.

Lead to three suicides, and operated similarly to gamergate.

Quote from Lulu_Key

the fudge

thats much worse than 4chan or 8chan

what's worse is that cloudflare's reluctance to drop kiwifarms is historically accurate to how they handled other problematic sites as well.

Cloudflare famously (somewhat) has ticked off Anonymous on a number of times for hosting terror group sites and because those sites pay, Cloudflare provides ddos protection, the same protection that heads off Anon so many times. Edit: some context, Anonymous attacks sites using ddos and other attacks to take down or expose morally corrupt things online. Anon had helped bring justice to a rape case.

Quote from krell

YOU should feel *complimented* that APnews 'picked up' on Kiwi Farms ...

Haha as much as it has arrived after my thread, I doubt AP news would actively search my threads for leads.