Kiwifarms

An online forum which compiles information in order to harass people for entertainment was blocked after creating “the potential risk for human life.”

[NBC](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-keffals-anti-trans-rcna44834) “I constantly have this lingering thought in the back of my head, ‘What are they up to? The Anti-Defamation League considers the forum a “ [breeding ground for countless harassment campaigns.](https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1562490784188100608)” Members of Kiwi Farms will “swat” their victims whereby a false emergency tip is sent to police saying the target is about to commit a violent crime. Without Cloudflare’s security services, the forum will be open to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks where it could be flooded with fake internet traffic, rendering it unusable. They also hack victims online accounts like Uber which was the case for one of the forums current targets, Canadian transgender activist and Twitch broadcaster Clara “Keffal” Sorrenti. Kiwi Farms is known for discussing and compiling information about people it deems eccentric and then doxing them, their family and friends for the purpose of starting harassment campaigns.

Citing “imminent danger,” Cloudflare has dropped the notorious stalking and harassment site Kiwi Farms from its internet security services.

Reached earlier by The Associated Press to comment on the campaign against his site, Moon replied only “the press are scum.” Removing Kiwi Farms from the internet is a matter of public safety for every single person online,” she tweeted on Saturday. Last year, DDoS-Guard protected the pro-Trump social media website Parler.com for a time after Amazon withdrew hosting services. On Sunday, Kiwi Farms was inaccessible. They gang up on victims and pool their personal details such as addresses and phone numbers in a practice called “doxxing,” spreading vile rumors and targeting workplaces, friends, families and homes. Sorrenti, who goes by Keffals online, has been leading a campaign to pressure Cloudflare to drop Kiwi Farms.

The internet services company Cloudflare has announced Saturday that they have blocked Kiwi Farms, an online forum that has become infamous for spreading ...

"Visitors to any of the Kiwi Farms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post. "Today Cloudflare has dropped the notorious far-right hate forum Kiwi Farms," the #DropKiwiFarms campaign said in a statement. 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. "But, in the long term, such choices make it more difficult to protect content that supports oppressed and marginalized voices against attacks." Kiwi Farms 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."

Internet service provider Cloudflare announced that it has dropped the controversial forum Kiwi Farms just days after promising that it would not take such ...

You're going to be muzzled like we're all muzzled on every social media platform and every streaming platform," [according to](https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1565801244433817602?s=20&t=ztnS11fTwCELDpvvFntnpw) NBC correspondent Ben Collins. [statement](https://archive.ph/0x7hB) on Wednesday defending its decision not to drop Kiwi Farms. [provides](https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-attack/) websites protection from distributed denial-of-service attacks, malicious and illegal attempts to disrupt the normal traffic of a server by overwhelming a target with a flood of internet traffic. 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," the statement said.

While a former FBI Assistant Director says the site 'could easily become an increased threat of domestic terror'

If Kiwi Farms ever becomes active again, we must apply the same pressure to FiberHub that we did to Cloudflare, otherwise the website will return online and be operational in the foreseeable future. Fiberhub, a company based in Las Vegas, is where the servers that host Kiwi Farms are located and serviced. We’re happy with the decision that Cloudflare came to, and this deals a big blow to Kiwi Farms and their community, one they may never recover from. hCaptcha, provider of the forum’s captcha security, have also suspended Kiwi Farms, saying the site’s hateful and violent content violates their terms: [also says in his blog post](https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/) that “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”. We are also not taking this action directly because of the pressure campaign.

Kiwi Farms organise vicious harassment campaigns against transgender people, feminists and others they deem mockable.

Reached earlier by The Associated Press to comment on the campaign against his site, Moon replied only “the press are scum.” “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,” CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post Saturday. Removing Kiwi Farms from the internet is a matter of public safety for every single person online,” she tweeted on Saturday. On Sunday, Kiwi Farms was inaccessible. They gang up on victims and pool their personal details such as addresses and phone numbers in a practice called “doxxing,” spreading vile rumours and targeting workplaces, friends, families and homes. Sorrenti, who goes by Keffals online, has been leading a campaign to pressure Cloudflare to drop Kiwi Farms.

The internet services company says an "immediate threat to human life" led it to block the hate-filled message forum.

"This deals a big blow to Kiwi Farms and their community, one they may never recover from," the statement said. In the blog post, Price said Cloudflare reached out to law enforcement multiple times in the past two weeks for what is believed to be potential criminal acts and imminent threats to human life. Posts on Kiwi Farms frequently target members of the LGBTQ community, specifically transgender people. Kiwi Farms is a hate-filled message forum that started as an offshoot of 4chan, the infamous anonymous image board. Swatting involves fake calls made to the police that can lead to an armed response at a targeted person's home. The