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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amateur professional lurk said:
not to doom post too hard, but i would be horrible precedent if these twitter troons got all those sites to start taking down content. i mean google search, that's a given, wont be a problem. but if they manage to get wayback machine to remove all the stuff we've posted then that would just open the door to basically everything conceivable being taken down.
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The following is specifically about the coof, but it is happening across the board, you only have to check out the history of controversial wikipedia pages to see it happening every single day, to the point of even wikipedia having to lock the editing of pages, totally proving troons/NPCs eat their own.

Dr. Peter McCullough: "I recently went on with Steve Bannon on the War Room, and Bannon and said, 'Thank goodness you guys wrote these books and have the citations in the timeline as evidence.'

And the reason why this is so important, Bannon [predicts], what looks like a U.S. government operation, they're going to basically wipe the electronics completely. They are going to basically whitewash this. They are going to rewrite history — that the only way we're going to actually be able to record what happened is in these books.

Because the electronics: Twitter, Facebook, all the electronic media, it's gonna be scrubbed!"
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annoyingfuck said:
The following is specifically about the coof, but it is happening across the board, you only have to check out the history of controversial wikipedia pages to see it happening every single day, to the point of even wikipedia having to lock the editing of pages, totally proving troons/NPCs eat their own.


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The unfortunate thing is, you may want to avoid politics, but these days, politics will follow you. You want to have a gossip site? If you gossip about troons, even a little bit, they will come after you with all the time they spend on the computer in their room, and try to get you shut down. If you don't gossip about them, then that was a political decision taken to (try to) stay afloat without controversy.
 
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are you new to journo practices? these fuckers have the templates & skeleton prepared in advance for stuff like the queen's death etc
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The idea that there's a master doc of articles such as:
'Nuclear War Declared.'
'Stock market crash'
'Queen of the UK dead'

And then halfway down there's shit like
'Kiwifarms taken down.'
'Tranny president.'

Is hilarious.
 
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are you new to journo practices? these fuckers have the templates & skeleton prepared in advance for stuff like the queen's death etc
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the Queen's death, an inevitable event, is far easier and more reasonable to prepare an article in advance for than an article expecting CloudFlare reversing their statement from days ago.

even if they prepared some form of alternate article, you really think they'd be able to 1. be notified that this happened 2. skim the Cloudflare announcement 3. update their article to match the specific events and reasoning in the announcement 4. publish the post... all within 3 minutes?
 
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the Queen's death, an inevitable event, is far easier and more reasonable to prepare an article in advance for than an article expecting CloudFlare reversing their statement from days ago.

even if they prepared some form of alternate article, you really think they'd be able to 1. be notified that this happened 2. skim the Cloudflare announcement 3. update their article to match the specific events and reasoning in the announcement 4. publish the post... all within 3 minutes?
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there are literally two paras that refer the latest update that too is just direct copy-paste quote. rest of it is age old filler hoe's woes
these journos have their macbooks always on standby
 
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It's never about the harassment, it's always about the control.
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Even if they somehow get all those sites to pull any thing to do with the farms off of, theres still people who probably have the shit Lucas has said saved somewhere, ready to reupload somewhere else. He publicly posted all this shit to the internet, its not like we're a bunch of Hollywood hackers and cracked into their PC. Just a pedophile trying to quash any evidence of the vile shit they've said and been caught doing, all while making themselves look like they're a victim.
 
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Tard Whisperer said:
the Queen's death, an inevitable event, is far easier and more reasonable to prepare an article in advance for than an article expecting CloudFlare reversing their statement from days ago.

even if they prepared some form of alternate article, you really think they'd be able to 1. be notified that this happened 2. skim the Cloudflare announcement 3. update their article to match the specific events and reasoning in the announcement 4. publish the post... all within 3 minutes?
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Haven't read the whole thread, but was it actually three minutes or are you being hyperbolic? Because if it was really fast but just a bit wider timeframe, say 15-20 minutes even, then yeah, I think it's totally believable that Taylor Lorenz noticed or someone alerted her to it happening and she spat out this little five paragraph summary of something she has been expecting to happen for days.
 
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Haven't read the whole thread, but was it actually three minutes or are you being hyperbolic? Because if it was really fast but just a bit wider timeframe, say 15-20 minutes even, then yeah, I think it's totally believable that Taylor Lorenz noticed or someone alerted her to it happening and she spat out this little five paragraph summary of something she has been expecting to happen for days.
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it was actually 3 minutes
Tard Whisperer said:
This was posted at 6:18pm ET, within minutes of the site going down (anyone know the exact time?). Lorenz tweeted it at 6:21pm, Null didn't even post his comment until 6:22pm.

Lorenz/the Post was definitely tipped off before this happened, they had the article already prepared

Update: Cloudflare CEO tweeted out the announcement at 6:15pm. telegram users started asking what happened at 6:16pm. so confirmed that the article came out within 3 mins of the site being down.
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amateur professional lurk said:
not to doom post too hard, but i would be horrible precedent if these twitter troons got all those sites to start taking down content. i mean google search, that's a given, wont be a problem. but if they manage to get wayback machine to remove all the stuff we've posted then that would just open the door to basically everything conceivable being taken down.
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Precedent has never mattered to the Troon Brigade if it was in their way, and there's a lot of people across the echelons of power that want archives gone in their entirety.
 
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given that taylor lorenz's uncle was able to wipe her tweets from wayback machine to protect her, that one's basically guaranteed to dfe
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They're technically not wiped, just hidden. They did the same thing for Joy Reid when someone discovered a "homophobic" post on her old blog.

Go on Twitter and ask someone who works for the IA. I remember someone asking this almost this exact question of Jason Scott on a Discord I'm in and the spergout was pretty funny.
 
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Even if they somehow get all those sites to pull any thing to do with the farms off of, theres still people who probably have the shit Lucas has said saved somewhere, ready to reupload somewhere else. He publicly posted all this shit to the internet, its not like we're a bunch of Hollywood hackers and cracked into their PC. Just a pedophile trying to quash any evidence of the vile shit they've said and been caught doing, all while making themselves look like they're a victim.
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Also I thought it LIKED the attention?
Guess Five Guys will always be the same regardless of the cycle.
 
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