How Cloudflare got Kiwi Farms wrong - The Verge

Cloudflare doesn’t want to be in charge of moderation. But when it comes to troubling sites like Kiwi Farms, the company is more responsible than it’d like to be.

Today let’s talk about Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare, and whether infrastructure providers ought to take more responsibility for content moderation than they have generally taken.

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Kiwi Farms is a nearly 10-year-old web forum, founded by a former administrator for the popular QAnon wasteland 8chan, that has become notorious for waging online harassment campaigns against LBGT people, women, and others. It came to popular attention in recent weeks after a well known Twitch creator named Clara Sorrenti spoke out against the recent wave of anti-trans legislation in the United States, leading to terrifying threats and violence against her by people who organized on Kiwi Farms.

Ben Collins and Kat Tenbarge wrote about the situation at NBC:

Sorrenti, known to fans of her streaming channel as “Keffals,” says that when her front door opened on Aug. 5 the first thing she saw was a police officer’s gun pointed at her face. It was just the beginning of a weekslong campaign of stalking, threats and violence against Sorrenti that ended up making her flee the country.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/6/23339889/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-content-moderation-ddos


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