Cloudflare, which provides products from web security services to web hosting and Internet technology, has been under pressure to drop Kiwi Farms as a customer after the online forum known for harassment and hate campaigns recently forced a well-known transgender Twitch streamer into hiding. The Anti-Defamation League has referred to Kiwi Farms as “an extremist-friendly forum that has been the breeding ground for countless harassment campaigns”.
Over the last decade, Kiwi Farms has been tied to multiple doxxing attacks, in which a person’s private, personal information is published online, or “swatting”, where anonymous attackers use that private information to send police or SWAT teams to a targeted person’s home. At least two people who have died by suicide have been targeted by Kiwi Farms users, according to messages from the victims themselves or friends cited in news reports.
Her cause has garnered widespread support online. In August, the #DropKiwiFarms hashtag was mentioned 10,000 times on Twitter, according to a search through BrandMentions. Since then, Cloudflare has had discussions with policy makers that led executives to conclude that “the power to terminate security services for the sites was not a power Cloudflare should hold. Not because the content of those sites wasn’t abhorrent – it was – but because security services most closely resemble internet utilities,” according to the blog.
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