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Anonymous ID: 3aaa97 Sept. 4, 2022, 7:10 p.m. No.17498003   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8013 >>8017 >>8030 >>8050 >>8062 >>8083 >>8308 >>8315 >>8317 >>8404

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> Cloudflare Blocks Kiwi Farms Messaging Board

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https://youtu.be/u3oSy2vJj3I –

>video of Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti claiming she was swatted by KiwiFarms.

 

CLOUDFLARE PUBLICALLY REGRETS DEPLATFORMMING SITES LIKE 8KUN & WITHIN A WEEK DEPLATFORMS KIWIFARMS - WHAT A COINCIDENCE

 

Cloudflare Blocks Kiwi Farms Messaging Board From Internet Services

https://www.ntd.com/cloudflare-blocks-kiwi-farms-messaging-board-from-internet-services_835484.html

ARTICLE ATTACHED.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/31/cloudflare_ki

'''Highly relevant in light of Cloudflare's proclamation a few days ago that he should never had deplatformmed 8chan or Daily Stormer.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-approach/

 

IS THIS A FALSE FLAG??

Users of Kiwifarms say yes, based on false accusations.

 

Moderator Null of Kiwifarms explains what happened:

  • ''Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated an imminent threat to human life was why he revoked our service.''

  • He elaborates in his post, and claims violent rhetoric had ramped up.

  • This seems to be based off one of two things:

  • A post made on 4chan's /pol/ with a picture taken outside an apartment in Ireland which references the forum.

  • A series of posts made by one user, @Washizu Iwao (formerly @Serotonin).

This means that a community with 16,000 daily sign-ins is being punished for the behavior of a single user, or a person not even on our website.

Our website makes no money. All of our moderators are volunteers. It took Facebook (with a 24/7 staff of paid moderators) 29 minutes to remove the Christchurch shooting from Facebook Live.

This user joined in 2020, but the account remained inactive until July, 2022.

He made a single, low-effort post in an on-topic board before going dormant again until August 21st. Every subsequent post was in the Keffals thread.

 

The post by @Washizu Iwao was posted at 9:42pm EU time. It was reported seven times. After 32 minutes it was deleted by @Ride, one of our admins. The user was also banned. (Correction: The user deleted the post himself with the reason "retarded" 14 minutes after it had been posted, and 2 minutes after #DropKiwiFarms tweeted about it, as outlined here.)

This person is not an active member of the community. This appears to be a sleeper account someone had gotten access to in July, and kept on hand to use like this.

 

On August 31st, Matthew Prince released a strong statement defending his role as a service provider and not a regulatory body. 3 days later, something scared him. I don't know what it was, but it achieved the desired result. In an explanation published late on a Saturday, which reads as rushed and irrational, he tries to mitigate the whiplash between the two opposing statements by saying we are the worst site he has ever seen - because one post (which was already deleted by the time he pulled the plug) made a violent threat.

 

The precedent has been set. At Cloudflare, with enough pressure, a single post by a strange account can be made to threaten a 9-year-old community and the tens of thousands of people who have used it every day for years. There has never been a violent incident in our history, which cannot be said for many other sites still on Cloudflare. This narrative feels like a lie spun up to save face.

 

Contrary to any other time Cloudflare has refused service, the error page for our domain is unique. It exists to defend Cloudflare's decision making and to defame our community as a dangerous organization with zero substance besides Matthew Prince's own words. He has never felt it necessary to seize a domain and convert it to a P.R. statement for Cloudflare before today.

 

Even now, I have received zero communication from Cloudflare or any law enforcement agency regarding #DropKiwiFarms or its members.

 

This concerns me and should deeply concern everyone about the state of the Internet.

 

https://kiwifarms.ru/threads/matthew-prince-lied.128900/

 

ANONS DIG

Anonymous ID: 3aaa97 Sept. 4, 2022, 7:14 p.m. No.17498017   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8030 >>8083 >>8287 >>8308 >>8315 >>8317 >>8398 >>8404

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Cloudflare Blocks Kiwi Farms Messaging Board From Internet Services

 

Major cybersecurity software provider Cloudflare on Sept. 3 blocked messaging board Kiwi Farms, citing an “unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life.”

 

In a statement on the company’s blog, Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said that “[v]isitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare’s services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post.”

 

“Kiwifarms may move their sites to other providers and, in doing so, come back online, but we have taken steps to block their content from being accessed through our infrastructure,” he wrote.

 

As of late Saturday, an error message appeared on the Kiwi Farms website saying: “Blocked: Due to an imminent and emergency threat to human life, the content of this site is blocked from being accessed through Cloudflare’s infrastructure.”

 

“This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare’s role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with,” Prince said.

 

“However, the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before.”

 

Prince also said on Twitter that the threats had escalated “in spite of proactively working with law enforcement” such that “it became enough of an imminent emergency we could no longer wait for them to act.”

 

Kiwi Farms is an internet forum that’s been known to be used by people to harass others. It was originally set up as “CWCki Forums” in 2013 before its current name was adopted in 2014. The “CWC” stands for the initials of a person who was first noticed in 2007 posting comic art on another internet forum, 4chan. Kiwi Farms had been launched originally in efforts to harass the individual.

 

Campaign to Drop Kiwi Farms

 

Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, a Canadian Twitch streamer and political activist, started the #dropwikifarms campaign after she faced continued harassment by users on the site.

 

In a Twitter post on Aug. 18, Sorrenti had shared about how her hotel location was doxxed after she left her home on Aug. 5 following a swatting incident. “Things are escalating, and now I am in hiding. I need everyone to share this as widely as possible. I am scared of what is going to come next,” she shared at the time.

 

Late Sept. 3, the campaign responded to the block, saying it was “happy” with Cloudflare’s decision.

 

“Today Cloudflare has dropped the notorious far-right hate forum Kiwi Farms … Kiwi Farms has been around for over a decade, and at no point in the site’s history have they come under this much fire,” the statement from the #dropwikifarms campaign reads. “This is a historical moment where thousands of people have stood up and taken a stance against online harassment and hate.”

 

“While we should celebrate today, this may not be the end of their community … if we continue to stand together and fight back, we can see this until the end,” campaign organizers said, adding, “As long as websites like Kiwi Farms remain active, we’ll keep fighting.”

 

Threat to Human Life Cited

 

Prince acknowledged that a “pressure campaign” had begun about two weeks ago “with the goal to deplatform Kiwi Farms.” The same pressure campaign had also targeted Cloudflare and other providers that Kiwi Farm used, he noted.

 

But Cloudflare is “not taking this action directly because of the pressure campaign,” he said of the block.

 

https://www.ntd.com/cloudflare-blocks-kiwi-farms-messaging-board-from-internet-services_835484.html

Anonymous ID: 3aaa97 Sept. 4, 2022, 7:30 p.m. No.17498083   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8273 >>8315 >>8317

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>fuck Cloudflare

ok.

But first find out how they end up deplatformming a site IMMEDIATELY AFTER saying it was a mistake to deplatform sites like 8chan and Daily Stormer.

 

All the earmarkings of a FF imo.

 

repost of announcement by Matthew Prince, posted here yesterday (not in qresear.ch yet).

 

Cloudflare's abuse policies & approach

''08/31/2022''

look at the date - JUST published.

 

article attached.

SALIENT PASSAGES:

 

Avoiding an abuse of power

Some argue that we should terminate these services to content we find reprehensible so that others can launch attacks to knock it offline. That is the equivalent argument in the physical world that the fire department shouldn't respond to fires in the homes of people who do not possess sufficient moral character. Both in the physical world and online, that is a dangerous precedent, and one that is over the long term most likely to disproportionately harm vulnerable and marginalized communities.

 

Today, more than 20 percent of the web uses Cloudflare's security services. When considering our policies we need to be mindful of the impact we have and precedent we set for the Internet as a whole. Terminating security services for content that our team personally feels is disgusting and immoral would be the popular choice. But, in the long term, such choices make it more difficult to protect content that supports oppressed and marginalized voices against attacks.

 

Refining our policy based on what we’ve learned

This isn't hypothetical. Thousands of times per day we receive calls that we terminate security services based on content that someone reports as offensive. Most of these don’t make news. Most of the time these decisions don’t conflict with our moral views. Yet two times in the past we decided to terminate content from our security services because we found it reprehensible. In 2017, we terminated the neo-Nazi troll site The Daily Stormer. And in 2019, we terminated the conspiracy theory forum 8chan.

 

In a deeply troubling response, after both terminations we saw a dramatic increase in authoritarian regimes attempting to have us terminate security services for human rights organizations — often citing the language from our own justification back to us.

 

Since those decisions, we have had significant discussions with policy makers worldwide. From those discussionswe concluded 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.

 

Just as the telephone company doesn't terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things, we have concluded in consultation with politicians, policy makers, and experts that turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy.To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.

 

''then they turn around and do it within a week''.