Disaster Under Pressure, Security Firm Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms Website - Noted LoTT doxer Taylor Lorenz weigh ins

SAN FRANCISCO — Reversing course under growing public pressure, major tech security company Cloudflare announced Saturday that it will stop protecting the Kiwi Farms website, best known as a place for stalkers to organize hacks, online campaigns and real-world harassment.
Cloudfare chief executive Matthew Prince, who this past week published a lengthy blog post justifying the company’s services defending Kiwi Farms, told The Washington Post he changed his mind not because of the pressure but a surge in credible violent threats stemming from the site.
“As Kiwi Farms has felt more threatened, they have reacted by being more threatening,” Prince said. “We think there is an imminent danger, and the pace at which law enforcement is able to respond to those threats we don’t think is fast enough to keep up.”
Prince said contributors to the forum were posting home addresses of those seen as enemies and calling for them to be shot.
Kiwi Farms launched in 2013 and quickly grew into a popular internet forum for online harassment campaigns. At least three suicides have been tied to harassment stemming from the Kiwi Farms community, and many on the forum consider their goal to drive their targets to suicide. Members of the LGBTQ community and women are frequent targets.
Cloudflare has faced broad backlash in the past week as a campaign for it to drop the service gained steam and widened to pressure paying customers to drop Cloudflare if it held firm.
Two weeks ago, Prince said the company stopped selling Kiwi Farms a $20 per month service to customize error messages shown to web users when its pages wouldn’t load. On Saturday, it withdrew the remaining free services, which fend off denial-of-service attacks and speed content delivery by making copies of the site in many locations.
Clara Sorrenti, a trans Canadian Twitch streamer known online as Keffals, launched the #DropKiwiFarms campaign after being targeted by Kiwi Farms posters for over half a year.
Forum users had repeatedly doxed Sorrenti and her family, posting addresses and more, and last month they called in false crime reports to draw police to her home. Sorrenti fled to Northern Ireland late last month, and within 48 hours users of the forum had pinpointed her location and she began receiving threats.
On Saturday, she spoke with The Post just minutes after police had arrived at her residence after another swatting attempt.
“There are countless people suffering because of this website,” Sorrenti said. “Kiwi Farms isn’t about free speech, it’s about hate speech. The majority of the content on the site is threads used for targeted harassment against political targets.”
Sorrenti’s campaign against Cloudflare went viral in the past several days, with organizations and influencers joining in the call to ban Kiwi Farms from Cloudflare’s service. The Anti-Defamation League called Kiwi Farms an “extremist-friendly forum that has been the breeding ground for countless harassment campaigns.”
In the interview, Prince said he was uncomfortable dropping Kiwi Farms despite its content and would have preferred a court order.
But he said it was an easier call than his previous decisions to drop neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer and the 8chan website because those two were not hotbeds for specific violent plots.
Lorenz reported from Los Angeles.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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[Stoneheart]

That's the problem. Barnes IS a lolyer.

But he was willing to go on the record saying he "represented the kiwifarms" during Patrick Tomlinson's subpoena kerfuffle. He's also talked big game.

Well, this could be his put up or shut up lawsuit.

he is already at war with the woke over him defending Kennedy jr and he worked for kiwi farms before, so its atleast possible.
he also hates the catboy with a burning passion.

 

[God of Nothing]

Which only strengthens my belief that "Social Media" by and large is an enemy of human freedom.

i blame the normies incapable of controlling themselves

 

[AngryAboutInternets]

GUYS OMG LOOK AT THIS TOTALLY LEGITIMATE POST I JUST SAW WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING AND BAN FREE SPEECH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
On a more serious note, this is a really bad precedent and while I know Null probably won't take these faggots to court, I really wish a nigga would.

 

[Exuvia]

To be fair, most newspapers sites will have articles written and ready to go if there’s an ongoing issue, covering as many bases as possible depending on what outcome happens so they can get their article published quickly if there’s a development so they can say they were “first” in reporting on it. This has been known to happen with obituaries for prominent people being published prematurely (Alfred Nobel being a notable case).

 

[Uranus Pink]

Went and checked Spacebattles forum and they're happy as fuck over this. And fucking pissed off that Null haves the backup in Russia. Almost certainly they'll will try to join in on gayops.

 

[Pee Cola]

You need a lawyer familiar with cases involving the Western Union telegraph company, civil rights, corporate law and has the right to practice in the relevant jurisdiction. Hopefully you can find such a white elephant. If not...and it pains me, call Robert Barnes. He's represented you already, he's done cases like this, and this situation is Crack Cocaine for him.

Has the EFF been hollowed out by troons yet? If not, and they're still a bunch of Richard Stallman tier autists, they might be worth reaching out to.

 

[Ser Prize]

Because they are narcissists who refuse to self reflect and want to keep the gravy train going as long as possible. Imagine people more pathetic and lonely than KF users.


It was trannies and other leftists who made a lot of the decentralization tech to "hack the planet" and hide from the NSA. The one Mozilla tranny even wrote an article about monitoring and disrupting decentralized tech they created to stop "fascism". Even the Tor project went out of their way to denounce "fascism" and the "alt right" while their project allows for child porn to proliferate.
The people I met in the cyber security industry before 2016 have become brainrotted. The formerly anti-government, pro privacy, pro free speech professionals went off the deep end when the propaganda(anti trump, anti "right wing") went to a higher level. The one even admits it but he blames "misinformation". He cannot fathom that he is being corralled into supporting "liberal"(read: pro establishment/elite) policies because he sees things as evangelical christians/pro big business vs. the good guys/democrat party. It is madness watching this happen to people but they refuse to stop going on places like reddit or do research themselves.
Anyone who has gone to Defcon before and after 2016 will see how shit and political it has become. When I say political I am describing the religious fervor and attachment of party politics and narratives onto everything. Why care about patent abuse, DRM, government and corporate data harvesting, and other hacking related topics when you can make statements about trump stealing the election and how you love trannies? Most of these supporters don't have a clue as to the details of the things they vocally dick ride.

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Those who stopped watching television and visiting news/consensus sites are abnormal and treated as such.

It's because they never had real opinions. They had programming. Everything hinged on a double good liberal vs evil fascist conservatard axis. So it's dead simple to get them to promote everything they hated if you spin it in that axis.

 

[neger psykolog]

In this talk, part of "The Future of Programmable Money" series, Andreas discusses digital gentrification and corporatisation, how this relates to the "blockchain not Bitcoin" phenomenon, and why we should maintain interesting communities both offline and online.

 

[Chiri]

To be fair, most newspapers sites will have articles written and ready to go if there’s an ongoing issue, covering as many bases as possible depending on what outcome happens so they can get their article published quickly if there’s a development so they can say they were “first” in reporting on it. This has been known to happen with obituaries for prominent people being published prematurely (Alfred Nobel being a notable case).

Well yeah, it's that this one directly quotes Prince's blog post which makes the timing suspicious. If it was a vague Kiwi Farms down article that was on the short side I wouldn't think twice about it.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Has the EFF been hollowed out by troons yet? If not, and they're still a bunch of Richard Stallman tier autists, they might be worth reaching out to.

The EFF is 99.9999% troon as far as I can tell

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

My message to Keffals, the Tranny Mob, and the (((mainstream media))) who won't let us shitpost in peace:

Spoiler

I'm serious.

 

[God of Nothing]

Went and checked Spacebattles forum and they're happy as fuck over this. And fucking pissed off that Null haves the backup in Russia. Almost certainly they'll will try to join in on gayops.

Why Spacebattles? That den of autism and midwittery is one of the most stale places on the interwebs. I'd rather browse a political subreddit than whatever the hell passes for your average thread there. Completely devoid of actual intelligence. Nothing but heckin' love science bullshit. Arguing about franchise power levels is serious business, bro. Ugh.

 

[Israellover1234]

Why doesn't cloudflare drop twitter? There's members of the Taliban on there, Isis propaganda spread through Twitter, the leader of Iran uttered death threats against Mr. Rushdi, which lead to him being attacked. Why is kiwifarms responsible for whatever this is, while twitter isn't?

 

[Uranus Pink]

Why Spacebattles? That den of autism and midwittery is one of the most stale places on the interwebs. I'd rather browse a political subreddit than whatever the hell passes for your average thread there. Completely devoid of actual intelligence. Nothing but heckin' love science bullshit. Arguing about franchise power levels is serious business, bro. Ugh.

You are not wrong at all.
Still I check on them whenever Kiwifarms is mentioned over there for their autistic takes.

 

[Meat Target]

Why doesn't cloudflare drop twitter? There's members of the Taliban on there, Isis propaganda spread through Twitter, the leader of Iran uttered death threats against Mr. Rushdi, which lead to him being attacked. Why is kiwifarms responsible for whatever this is, while twitter isn't?

It's not about the law or "muh safety". It's about punishing those who dare to not bow to sacred cows.

 

[God of Nothing]

You are not wrong at all.
Still I check on them whenever Kiwifarms is mentioned over there for their autistic takes.

Le Chad doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the Virgins.
I mean, you can hazard an accurate enough guess.

 

[Ser Prize]

Went and checked Spacebattles forum and they're happy as fuck over this. And fucking pissed off that Null haves the backup in Russia. Almost certainly they'll will try to join in on gayops.

SpaceBattles has been pozzed for fucking years.

 

[tehpope]

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I've started downloading whatever this is as the time of this post but can't watch it anytime soon.

yt-dlp --live-from-start --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail

I use this command to capture live streams.

 

[NoReturn]

This will affect my future recommendations concerning web infrastructure.

Sir monk, which alternatives would you post for people searching for things like
"DDOS PROTECTION"
"CloudFlare are cowards"
"Alternatives to CloudFlare"
and so on?

 

[Meat Target]

You can tell a lot about someone by their enemies, and given what Keffals and Taylor Lorenz stand for, I'm happy to not be on their side. I don't consider myself a righteous person, but I'm not a troon who openly grooms minors like Keffals, nor am I narcissistic propagandist who fabricates slander to further an insidious agenda like Taylor Lorenz.

Being despised by people like them is probably the highest compliment I've ever received.

My thoughts exactly.

We are up against evil people who couch their bastardry in self-righteousness. I am glad to be their enemy.