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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[REGENDarySumanai]

He's gonna monitor other sites for threats, right?


Right?!

No. If you are a big website, you can do anything you want that would get the small guy crushed.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

If Kiwi Farms is down, how come I'm here?

 

[breadandcircuses]

Whelp. It was only a matter of time before we had to retreat to the Urals.

 

[TheBest]

If Kiwi Farms is down, how come I'm here?

You're in a coma, it's time to wake up. We miss you.

 

[User names must be unique]

The shit that really gets me is absolutely non of these retards really understand what cloudflare did for the site, They may as well start a pressure campaign on Yale locks to remove the locks from nulls apartment.

 

[FaggotMcDick]

The post by washizu was so obviously fake / made by the troonsquad I can’t believe anyone fell for this. It‘s the old againsthatesubreddits strategy when they can’t get a sub banned right away. Then they’ll post shit like this and screenshot it immediately and send it to the mods. Just like what happened here.

bombs???
100% fake, low effort and possibly gay.

that or washizu was obvsly joking.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Not surprised but disappointed. I just hated seeing the trannies get another win.

With trannies you don't have to win, you just have to wait.

 

[Kiwi On The Go]

Kiwifarms is gone forever! Never to exist again!
...Oh wait

 

[Chiri]

@Washizu Iwao is permabanned so I can't even ask what motivated him to make that post.

 

[sperginity]

i will make fun of trannies even harder. they cannot stop me

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

You're in a coma, it's time to wake up. We miss you.

No don't it is dangerous out here.

Stay with us here forever @Massa's Little Buckie

The Clown God welcomes you to the eternal rest, just look at my new PFP..doesn't it make me trust worthy?

 

[Escaped Abortion]

Just another example of the lack of integrity in the modern world. If you can't stand by your values when it's actually challenging and might require sacrifice, then they're just facades. I'm grateful for this place being one of the last true bastions of free speech on the net. Sometimes you need to be distasteful, and someday the crybullies need to face that people saying mean things about them on the internet isn't going to kill them. Coddled people are truly our greatest mistake.

 

[Hyro]

When your autistic lolcow website is edgier than a neo-nazi blog.

That's the power of tech tranny influence. You touch the troon mafia and you disappear

 

[spinal gas chamber]

The post by washizu was so obviously fake / made by the troonsquad I can’t believe anyone fell for this. It‘s the old againsthatesubreddits strategy when they can’t get a sub banned right away. Then they’ll post shit like this and screenshot it immediately and send it to the mods. Just like what happened here. 100% fake and gay.

What was the post? I’ll look but this sounds like an excellent pile of bullshit.

 

[Doseferatu]

Whelp. It was only a matter of time before we had to retreat to the Urals.

Cheer up.

We could be some odd Christian sect on the run from commies like this person:

On the other hand, that might be an improvement, since we wouldn't have to hear about trannies grooming yet another child.

 

[Dan Abrams]

What was the post? I’ll look but this sounds like an excellent pile of bullshit.

Threatened to blow up bombs in Ireland to target the tranny.

 

[Chiri]

What was the post? I’ll look but this sounds like an excellent pile of bullshit.

There's no web archive of it but people from the thread say it was real, just deleted quickly by jannies as it ought to have been.

 

[Narr Then]

I've known for many years that the media lie and twist facts to suit their narrative, but to see it happen in real time about something I'm actively involved in is a real fucking eye-opener. Not to mention frustrating as fuck.
It's taking everything in me not to go posting links to the things they're lying about all over twitter, but I know it would be a pointless endeavour.
'vulnerable group' my left tit. These men in dresses have ALL the power.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

What was the post? I’ll look but this sounds like an excellent pile of bullshit.

It was a fedpost from some sperg that only posted in the Keffals thread. Supposedly, the guy's IP is Irish.

 

[wopirish]

Hey you, you're finally awake? You were trying to cross the border right? Walked right into the tranny ambush the same as us and that retard over there.