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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[Celebrate Nite]

bombs???

lamp oil??? rope??? It's your's my friend, as long as you have enough rubies!

 

[spinal gas chamber]

I had respect for cloudflare a long time ago, even before I made an account here. I debated leaving my job a couple years ago to work for them because I appreciated their stance. Now? Lol

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

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.

Archive.org has been compromised for ages.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

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

Won't be surprised if this troon bullshit is what helps decentralized net up and running. Much like how hypergamy has spurned on sexbot research.

 

[Corpun]

Hope they know they just opened the floodgates to catering to the mob in every way possible. You retards deserve what's coming though.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Suck my dick in Minecraft in hell, censors.

 

[Scale Smerch]

Hope they know they just opened the floodgates to catering to the mob in every way possible. You retards deserve what's coming though.

That's the beauty of this, they don't, they honestly believe this lame excuse is all the cover needed to give them choice over the inevitable cancel campaigns to come against Cloudfare protected sites in the future. They made their bed and now they get to enjoy it in all its suffocating glory.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Hope they know they just opened the floodgates to catering to the mob in every way possible. You retards deserve what's coming though.

It's not catering to the mob when they are the mob.

They just hide the fact they agree with them and were looking for some legal loophole to do this. Same thing with all the other Big Tech shitheads

 

[Alter Ego]

Last July, Kiwi Farms was booted from its domain registrar, DreamHost, following the suicide of a software developer called Near, who was a longtime target of the site’s user base.
“Like many trans people coming out as having been targeted by this site, I too was targeted by Kiwifarms,” Erin Reed, a trans activist and content creator, tweeted on Saturday. “They showed up at my local courthouse to grab my divorce files. They posted Google images of my house. They try to scare trans people into silence.”
But Chelsea Manning, a trans activist, offered a more nuanced opinion. “I don’t think long term the solution to this kind of dangerous speech is to ask hosting providers to have to take these things down," she told The Post. "We need a more balanced and measured long-term approach.”

@Activelo Somebody tell Taylor the good news about Byuu.

Also, what's up with pulling quotes from randos like Bradley Manning?

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

@Activelo Somebody tell Taylor the good news about Byuu.

Also, what's up with pulling quotes from randos like Bradley Manning?

Trying to make it appear they’re taking both sides. “We should rape them to death vs we should more measuredly rape them to death.”

It works really well.

 

[make_it_so]

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

These faggots hate having their dirty laundry aired.

 

[Maurice Caine]

Means nothing. What are they gonna do now? Beg the russkies to drop us too?

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I just wanna laugh at fat fuck Jack Scalfani and failed youtubers like Boogie and DSP.

Why do trannies ruin literally everything for everyone.

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.

Won't be surprised if this troon bullshit is what helps decentralized net up and running

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.


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

 

[Meat Target]

I have no regrets about writing Taylor Lorenz's thread. WaPo can eat a bag of monkeypox-ridden dicks.

 

[The handsome tard]

let them celebrate, unknowingly to them, we survived and will remain thriving.
And to lol when they kill themselves.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

To Cloudflare and anyone who actually supports hardcore censorship over things that you don’t like to see on the Internet because it harms your “ideology“ and “feelings”:



If we can’t live in a society where people are not allowed to be honest and straightforward with our opinions (no matter how right or wrong they are), how else will we survive in a society that will not last through lies, manipulation and division?

 

[Mediocre]

What a pathetic faggot.

Nipples showing, very disrespectful!

 

[mindlessobserver]

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What a pathetic faggot.

Nipples showing, very disrespectful!

He was probably ordered to make that statement and decision by the board. So what. He cucked out rather then resigning. Now the Twitter mob wants him to resign anyway because he is insufficiently pure. Bet your ass the board will behead him now as a ritual sacrifice.

He could have gone out a hero. Now he goes out a servile sacrificial lamb. Shameful.

 

[Random Internet Person]

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

What connections does Taylor’s uncle have?

 

[JosephStalin]

Cloudflare's actions are dishonorable and despicable. Just a bunch of limpdicks. Fuck Cloudflare, fully.