US internet service company blocks controversial online forum citing 'imminent threats to human life'

CNN ^ | 9/4/2022 | Donie O'Sullivan

[KnightAstronomer1]

New York (CNN)Cloudflare, a major American internet services company, pulled its support for Kiwi Farms, a controversial online message board, Saturday evening citing "imminent threats to human life." The move temporarily forced Kiwi Farms offline. Cloudflare's decision came as Kiwi Farms was linked to a campaign of harassment and violent threats targeting Clara Sorrenti, a Canadian trans woman who is a streamer on Twitch, a platform popular among video gamers. Sorrenti, better known by her online name "Keffals," launched a campaign calling on Cloudflare to stop providing services to the site. Fearing for her safety after her personal details were posted online, Sorrenti said she left her home in Canada in recent weeks and traveled to Belfast, Northern Ireland, to stay with a friend. However, she says, the online harassers were able to track her down there. Police in Northern Ireland are investigating threats made against her there, The Sunday Times reported. Cloudflare's decision comes amid an ongoing debate about what major internet companies and platforms should do about online hate and harassment campaigns that are organized with the support of their services. Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, has long expressed discomfort about his company's potential role of deciding what can and cannot be online.

[max americana]

“Cloudflare is nothing but a CDN - Content Delivery System and DDoS protection service”

****

BINGO!. That’s what they are. There’s a lot of more DDOS protection services out there. These clowns “boot up” on my screen when accessing anime and manga sites. I dont know those sites use these clowns in the first place.

[KnightAstronomer1]

Someone signed up there and immediately swatted MTG. I don’t see how it’s that different than someone signing up on FB/Twitter and then doing insane and illegal stuff.

[KnightAstronomer1]

They went to a russian provider and got blasted after a few days. Actually they always had that as a backup but the trannies hit them with DDOS and threats.

This is all about hard leftwing and transgender power tripping.

[from occupied ga]

Someone should doxx Taylor Lorenz

[ifinnegan]

What are you talking about.

[Pollard]

If your website is optimized, you don’t need a CDN. All of my sites score over 90 in google’s pagespeed or gtmetrix speed and optimization tests.

Any good web host can handle a DDoS attack.

Have a look at all the Big Tech Kiwi Farms uses. https://builtwith.com/?https://kiwifarms.net/

They use Cloudflare hosting, CDN, DNS, SSL.

https://kiwifarms.net/

We relied on the LEFT while dissing the LEFT. Stupid.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

CloudFlare was blocking me from connecting to Zillow for several minutes today. It is really frustrating and annoying.

[KnightAstronomer1]

That’s true, Cloudfare is a leftist org from San Fran, but it is one of the biggest of its type. Multi-billion company.

They then went to Russian DDoS-Guard which deplatformed them and that’s where it is now. There’s TOR access, but who knows how long that’ll last.

[jimwatx]

I’m betting that was his plan to create drama then exploit it on GoFundMe.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Out of curiosity, who has the TOR address?

[noiseman]

I don't see how any website focused on doxxing/harassing specific individuals can operate in the US. Is there an equivalent left wing website targeting conservatives?

Oh, I don’t know. How about…EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM!

[KnightAstronomer1]

Privated, you can also search on Telegram for their latest updates which includes the TOR Browser link

[max americana]

LOL yer’ right. Either they have their own hosting or look up Trump Social’s hosting. And I’ve read their techs are up and down, airtight MAGA peeps.

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "CloudFlare was blocking me from connecting to Zillow for several minutes today. It is really frustrating and annoying"

Blocking you or their servers where hung up?

[KnightAstronomer1]

Cloudflare said one day they’d protect KF, the next they fell for the trannies. It’s really a weird situation going on now. Possibly a textbook case of how to destroy sites.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Thanks. We have a bumpy road ahead. I hope we can pull off a red wave.

[Openurmind]

Absolutely Pollard. Cloudflare is just an optional 3rd party convenience service and not needed at all.

I am starting to wonder if folks are brainwashed into the idea that these 3rd party services are required when they are not at all.

Google tag manager, analytics, cloudflare, etc. None of them are needed but it seems everyone thinks they have to have them.

[grey_whiskers]

If this stuff doesn't stop, a small twitter brigade could easily deplatform FR or anything they want now.

Says the n00b. *SNIFF*

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It was a message from Cloudflare. It lasted a couple of minutes, then I was able to connect.

[Bikkuri]

"If this stuff doesn't stop, a small twitter brigade could easily deplatform FR or anything they want now."

That has been tried many times before. This is not a social platform, it is a private website, and has it's own servers.
In the past 2 decades, there were websites that were created specifically to take down this website; they were unsuccessful (including the DDOS attacks).

Of course l are many troll and malcontents here that would be better off, and more in their safe space, at DU...