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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[Crazedking]

Theres threat to live every single day posted on shit like twitter and youtube and they get yeeted off their platform as fast as the jannies yeeted this one. So what gives cloudflare? So much for free speech, guess what if anything illegal is taking place then how about they take null to court. Many have tried and they've all lost. Theres nothing illegal going on this website and they know it. Bending backward to some faggots that believe they are woman because they have moobs and chopped their dick off.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Hope you have fun now being harassed by trannies for the rest of your days. Hope it was worth it, because they will never be satisfied.

Cloudfare services 4chan too. Just saying.

 

[SuperShibuyaFighter]

All this crap does is embolden more trannies and will make them come for websites that simply disagree with trannies without even making fun of them.

Funny thing is I legitimately got burned out from Keffals, but Keffals just made sure I will keep checking his thread.

 

[Akumaten]

Of course Cloudfare sucking sodomite cock. Can't say anything about their sodomite masters.

 

[Autistsforuganda2]

How long till Keffals and the others realize we are still here?

 

[Autistsforuganda2]

Cloudfare services 4chan too. Just saying.

If he knows whats good for the Internet, he does not take down 4chan. The biggest autists are all contained there.

 

[Swingletonthesimpleton]

Cloudfare services 4chan too. Just saying.

Yeah and theres at least 30 tranny worship threads on gif alone right now. The place is infested with em and has been for a while

 

[Golly]

And yet here we are. An obstinate reminder of the necessity of free discussion, no matter how ugly. Who would have thought a trashy internet gossip site would be the scariest thing on the web? A repeated thank you to Null for stubbornly navigating this bullshit, and fuck this.

 

[Street Peter]

Null and his army of kittens will never surrender to the evil forces of Dr.Money.

 

[Nigger_]

I already had Tor installed on my PC and this cuts back on the invasion of Redditors anyway.

the only issue with TOR is that it is slow

 

[Chiri]

How long till Keffals and the others realize we are still here?

They don't think losing CloudFlare is the end, Lucas' own blog calls it merely another step. He's declared that the data center where Null's stuff is located is the next target for harassment.

 

[quaawaa]

Matthew Prince (Cloudflare CEO) is writing comments on the Hacker News thread about his blogpost:

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[Sicklick]

Here are some companies you should look into, @Null:

>web hosting
.SU, .TO or .RW ccTLDs, now.top, Epik and Media Land LLC (and maybe Tor if all else fails)
>ddos protection
DDoS-Guard, VanwaNet, BitMitigate or just manually defend your site, although this would require expertise
>cloud hosting
SkySilk
>crypto
Obviously any non-KYC exchange that allows Monero as the currency. Fuck anything else. Fuck Coinbase and PayPal.
>and others....

 

[ZazietheBeast]

And watch as this stokes the fire of people discussing trannies out in the open and pointing out the absurdity of it all. Talking about weirdos is not ok but letting those weirdos go behind the backs of several families just so they can irreversibly corrupt their children?

And they wonder why the backlash is growing. At the very least, this whole cloudflare business is going to be a great lesson in getting people who want their time away from these troons to learn more tech.

Here, Cloudflare, Taylor, Keffles, et al, a pair of flipped birds
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This really is turning into GamerGate Redux, isn’t it?

Has been since 2016. Though the journo scum have declared victory, the fight hasn't ended. It just evolved under a different name. After all, everything that was said which will happen to vidya happened. We have protags being replaced with progressive-stack friendly ones, leftist messaging in most mainstream games and the quality of games have decreased overall. There are old Warcraft III maps that simply dunk on plenty of newer games today.

Hope you have fun now being harassed by trannies for the rest of your days. Hope it was worth it, because they will never be satisfied.

Just about every SJW movement there is. Apologize, capitulate, they are never satisfied. Anyone who has a feminine mindset is like an unquenchable fire.

 

[Nigger_]

They don't think losing CloudFlare is the end, Lucas' own blog calls it merely another step. He's declared that the data center where Null's stuff is located is the next target for harassment.

I wonder how much data the whole of Kiwi Farms is, more than a few terabytes?

 

[Cyclonus]

And yet it moves...

 

[Manu7]

I've lurked here for 3 years and after all these years I've come to the conclusion of:

fuck niggers, fuck jannies, fuck trannies and specially fuck you Lucas

 

[Dan Abrams]

 

[Autistsforuganda2]

i know we made fun of @Null over the years, but from the deepest corner of my heart i wanna say.

We love you Null (in a non fag way)

 

[mindlessobserver]

Null probably needs to ready the funds to sue. Passivity really has gotten nowhere. It's just allowed insane people to defame him, the website, publishing materially false things and so on.

For example Newsweek just defamed the website by saying Null refused to turn over information tied to Brenton Tarrant. That is a bald faced lie. Keffals has also caused the tort of Tortiois Interference by triggering a material breach of contract with cloudflare. Cloudflare even admitted Keffals was a major factor in them dropping service.

These people need to actually be called to the mat to answer for their wild claims. Nothing they say can actually stand up to Court scrutiny. It's a just a circle jerk tied back to Wikipedia.