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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[God of Nothing]

SpaceBattles has been pozzed for fucking years.

they were big fans of star trek
it was inevitable

 

[XOCastle]

Is Law & Order SVU still on the air? If so I can damn near guarantee those creatively bankrupt writers going to write an episode about this mess... Who should play null?

 

[White_N]

very serious death threat I've seen reposted on the kiwi farms. Spooky

 

[Vesperus]

Sir monk, which alternatives would you post for people searching for things like
"DDOS PROTECTION"
"CloudFlare are cowards"
"Alternatives to CloudFlare"
and so on?

That's like walking into a car showroom and saying "What should I buy that isn't a ford focus?"

 

[Screw Danlon]

Is Law & Order SVU still on the air? If so I can damn near guarantee those creatively bankrupt writers going to write an episode about this mess... Who should play null?

Donald Trump.
in a dog mask.

 

[make_it_so]

they were big fans of star trek
it was inevitable

I resent what you're implying.

 

[Vesperus]

Is Law & Order SVU still on the air? If so I can damn near guarantee those creatively bankrupt writers going to write an episode about this mess... Who should play null?

Henry Cavil, shirtless, and holding a disabled puppy.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

@Activelo Somebody tell Taylor the good news about Byuu.

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

I’m fairly certain that Bradley has been counseling Keffals throughout this bullshit. Bradley Manning is not Edward Snowden, they were a sexual weirdo who leaked shit to appear as a martyr.

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

As an American, I'm not particularly thrilled about seeing "BLOCKED" appear on my browser.

In fact it's downright unreasonable...

 

[Non-breath oblige]

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.

They already have a list of domains and sites they exclude from archiving like Quora, Snopes, and until recently, RuneScape. Plus any other site with a robots.txt file.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine (definitely a user compiled list and not the complete list)

 

[Kosher Dill]

Null's next move should be to sell his services as a "decloudflaring expert" for any Saudis, Hungarians, or Turks concerned about violent hate speech on the internet.

 

[Vesperus]

They already have a list of domains and sites they exclude from archiving like Quora, Snopes, and until recently, RuneScape. Plus any other site with a robots.txt file.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine (definitely a user compiled list and not the complete list)

Huh. I had no idea there was a handy online list of massive faggots.

RuneScape, tho?

 

[Meat Target]

They already have a list of domains and sites they exclude from archiving like Quora, Snopes, and until recently, RuneScape. Plus any other site with a robots.txt file.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine (definitely a user compiled list and not the complete list)

Including the Twitter of Taylor Lorenz.

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

Eventually, the sword of damocles will come down on you Matthew Prince. Not by us, but by the troons. They'll say you have to go because you didn't act fast enough and won't take support away from other sites they deem bad. And then you'll watch as they replace you with someone else that'll crash your company.

They're already calling him a Nazi sympathizer and demanding he resign.

 

[Meat Target]

They're already calling him a Nazi sympathizer and demanding he resign.

And THAT is why you never bend the knee. The mob will never forgive you.

 

[make_it_so]

Including the Twitter of Taylor Lorenz.

What a fucking cowardly bitch.

...who the hell are John Mercer and THATPOPPY though?

 

[NoReturn]

They're already calling him a Nazi sympathizer and demanding he resign.

Slow clap it out for Matt, guys. He caved to the mob and they're still demanding his job.
Way. To. Go.

 

[Vesperus]

They're already calling him a Nazi sympathizer and demanding he resign.

This is why you never give these soulless retards an inch.

 

[F_Break]

It's a good thing that Taylor Lorenz isn't actually a journalist, and the Washington Post isn't a legitimate news outlet, because allowing a journalist to cheerlead a campaign to deplatform a website on social media and then later be allowed to "report" on the (temporary) success of the deplatforming campaign without disclosing that the website has a thread mocking the same journalist's ethical lapses and insane twitter behavior would be astoundingly unethical.

 

[PHILLIP BANKS]

How come trannies have this much fucking say in society?