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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[Tard Whisperer]

congrats to Cloudflare on abandoning your principles in the hope of pleasing these freaks, I'm sure it will work out for you!

 

[Hand Banana]

Keffals is still not a woman so we can't stop winning Kiwibros

 

[Markass the Worst]

congrats to Cloudflare on abandoning your principles in the hope of pleasing these freaks, I'm sure it will work out for you!
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When will people learn? Never give an inch to trannies. They will take the entire fucking continent.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Cloudflare be the kind of retard who sees a bunch of sharks circling around them and decide to shank themselves hoping it will make the sharks leave.

 

[wyattamurcan]

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.

I didn't even see the post, but yeah. If there was one on here, it was likely some troon faggot that did it.

againsthatesubreddits is gay. Hate rules.

 

[oldTireWater]

Where's the thread for bail-out forums? This is my only internet presence and I don't know where to turn to howl "nigger" into the like-minded void.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

congrats to Cloudflare on abandoning your principles in the hope of pleasing these freaks, I'm sure it will work out for you!
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lmao it's never good enough. I hope that cloudflare guy eats shit.

 

[The Dark Souls of Retards]

great job on getting that imminent threat, cloudflare and company
i'm sure by banning a website dedicated to literally just watching people you'll have stopped whatever it is you wanted to stop

 

[BlancoMailo]

Newer account posts threats on site
Threat get taken down asap, as this type of shit always is because fuck people who do that, and the poster is banned.
Keffals "somehow" has a screenshot of this new post before it was taken down.
Cloudflare drops KF.
Lorenz and other journo scum "somehow" have a story to drop about all of this in mere minutes after it takes place.

Am I getting the timeline correct here? This gay op shit glows so bright

There's been a strong trend of gayops in the last several months of 2020-2022 accounts with <100 posts coming out of inactivity to start causing problems, looks like they were keeping some around for rainy days.

 

[MunsterCheese]

So this autist claimed he got kiwfarms taken down. Sounds like an autist. Not sure I trust his claims.

SJC-2 Kiwi farms-0

https://www.donationalerts.com/r/sjc_https://www.donationalerts.com/r/sjc_

www.youtube.com

But this explains his livestream title of "SJC-2 Kiwi farms-0"

Edit: How do you download a youtube livestream?

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

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.

right there with you. this experience has really radicalized me to hate the media. i mean i already hated them for since all the lies they spread to get the us into the iraq war, but this is something i am personally involved in and to see nothing but unsubstantiated lies being spread, and not a single journalist doing two seconds of looking into the claims before posting them. null is 100% correct, journos are scum.

 

[mindlessobserver]

So this autist claimed he got kiwfarms taken down. Sounds like an autist. Not sure I trust his claims.

SJC-2 Kiwi farms-0

https://www.donationalerts.com/r/sjc_https://www.donationalerts.com/r/sjc_

www.youtube.com

But this explains his livestream title of "SJC-2 Kiwi farms-0"

I am on my phone, anyone able to start recording this?

 

[Hand Banana]

That's a joke as there are thousands of physical threats aimed at people like JKR, threatening her with death, complete with references to weapons such as that, on Twitter, every single day.

didnt kerfafles threatened to rape JKR? but its fine because shes an evil TERF and not a troon pedophile groomer

 

[drfuzzyballs]

What's Null's next move?

 

[DiabeticSP]

So when the bomb threat is investigated by the feds and proven to be a hoax they'll unblock the farms, right?

They'd have to admit there wasn't an actual threat made and that deplatforming a website because of a bomb hoax would be insane and easily abuse able, right??

 

[Dysnomia]

That's a joke as there are thousands of physical threats aimed at people like JKR, threatening her with death, complete with references to weapons such as that, on Twitter, every single day.

Those threats are ok because they are made by men with fake vaginas.

 

[ce gars]

It's never about the harassment, it's always about the control.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

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It's never about the harassment, it's always about the control.

Of course. The enforcement of the eternal present.

 

[NJBear]

How about a thread dedicated to threats of violence on twitter and then demand clownfare take them down?

 

[Scale Smerch]

Well this has convinced me to donate to the site. Congratulations 41%ers, you won, the thing you hate is going to keep on carrying on and you only have yourselves to blame