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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[Ponzo]

Seems like section 230 is only valid when Twatter and Fagbook need an excuse when it comes to user posting threats (and worse) but for some reason shouldn't apply to the farms when some (mostly) newly registered users write retarded shit? (and get banned for it when seen by mods)

 

[Netizennameless]

Nothing will kill the Farms. It doesn't matter if the site is up or not, the community will still be there, and you cannot kill the community. As long as the userbase is here, so will the Farms.

I will never give up my views or give up talking about them. I will keep spreading the gospel to normies, it's at the government's disadvantage (and trannies) that they can't monitor my communications if they bring down the site.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Seems like section 230 is only valid when Twatter and Fagbook need an excuse when it comes to user posting threats (and worse) but for some reason shouldn't apply to the farms when some (mostly) newly registered users write retarded shit? (and get banned for it when seen by mods)

It’s been suggested that the poster in question was a Keffals sympathizer. Telegram voice chat was claiming someone was on Twitter and YouTube taking credit.

 

[Grundlejungle]

Wanting to laugh at people who look funny and act foolish is literally terrorism now.
It should be illegal to be this retarded.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I will never give up my views or give up talking about them. I will keep spreading the gospel to normies, it's at the government's disadvantage (and trannies) that they can't monitor my communications if they bring down the site.

You know, some people were fine only talking about Keffals when they featured on the front page. Now it seems you got the whole site about to unite against the Canadian rancher.

 

[Aidan]

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?

GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes - GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

github.com

I've started downloading whatever this is as the time of this post but can't watch it anytime soon.

 

[Sithis]

What if Lorenz was the one who made the fedpost?

https://twitter.com/buttonslives/status/1565863859142918144?t=4POs9xfTJilO9oMil1HvgA&s=19

Christina Buttons on Twitter: "This confirms for me that it was @Tayl…

archived 4 Sep 2022 03:49:29 UTC

archive.ph

Seems we aren't the only ones who feel like Taylor would pull such a tactic.

 

[Hand Banana]

>someone accusses me of something heinous on a forum
>come out as trans
>make a fake threat against my persona
>complain to the providers using this fake threat as proof
>???
>profit
>now i have a shield against anything other people say against me
wtf Keffals you gave away the secret to having absolute control over the Intenet and the media, Hitler wishes he could be as powerful as you.

For real though i wonder how this will affect real people, i can totally see politicians of smaller, shitty, corrupt, third world countries using this to censor journalists they don't like.

 

[NJBear]

https://twitter.com/OOHKAYEYE/status/1566225982985539585

 

[Vesperus]

For real though i wonder how this will affect real people, i can totally see politicians of smaller, shitty, corrupt, third world countries using this to censor journalists they don't like.

Kiwifarms is a fun diversion for me, I'm a techie by trade.

The only thing I have learned from this is that Cloudflare will drop a client like a hot coal if there is twitter outrage.

This will affect my future recommendations concerning web infrastructure.

 

[The handsome tard]

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.

Dont ever appeal to the mob, they will never be satisfied.

 

[Neil]

Has Cloudflare "Blocked" other sites too? Like, with the same page setup and article?

 

[Kheapathic]

Has Cloudflare "Blocked" other sites too?

KiwiFarms has the honor of joining the list of Dropped by CloudFlare™ at the number three spot. Trailing behind only Daily Stormer and 8chan.

 

[Cuckoman]

If/when registrations open up again I wish NULL would require a phone number as well as a credit card to register.
And with the explicit warning "If you fedpost your dox will be sent to the FBI automatically"

 

[Random Internet Person]

Has Cloudflare "Blocked" other sites too? Like, with the same page setup and article?

No, but Keffals would love that, wouldn't she?

 

[Lathered in Sputum]

No backbone. Fags.

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

You can tell a lot about someone by their enemies, and given what Keffals and Taylor Lorenz stand for, I'm happy to not be on their side. I don't consider myself a righteous person, but I'm not a troon who openly grooms minors like Keffals, nor am I narcissistic propagandist who fabricates slander to further an insidious agenda like Taylor Lorenz.

Being despised by people like them is probably the highest compliment I've ever received.

 

[frozenrunner]

Lol Lucas is still a grotesque parody of femininity.

 

[Random Internet Person]

If/when registrations open up again I wish NULL would require a phone number as well as a credit card to register.
And with the explicit warning "If you fedpost your dox will be sent to the FBI automatically"

Sounds like you want him to become like Lowtax.

 

[Chiri]

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https://twitter.com/buttonslives/status/1565863859142918144?t=4POs9xfTJilO9oMil1HvgA&s=19

Christina Buttons on Twitter: "This confirms for me that it was @Tayl…

archived 4 Sep 2022 03:49:29 UTC

archive.ph

Seems we aren't the only ones who feel like Taylor would pull such a tactic.

I've become convinced over the hours that whoever it was that took the screenshot of the glowpost is the one who authored it and that the real reason why it was cropped the way that it was was to hide the Edit/Delete buttons that would have revealed this. I'd be 100% certain if the screengrab said "A moment ago" instead of "11 minutes ago".