Cloudflare said that it has blacklisted Kiwi Farms in a blog post on Sunday. CEO Matthew Prince stated that this was "a remarkable decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare's role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a risky one that we are not comfortable with."
But during the past 48 hours, he continued, "the rhetoric on the Kiwi Farms site has escalated to the point that we believe there is an extraordinary emergency and an immediate threat to human life unlike we have ever seen from Kiwi Farms or any other client before.
Members of the website organise harassment campaigns against feminists, transgender individuals, and others for amusement and band together against victims. They combine their private information and publish it online in a process known as "doxxing." Another practise of making fictitious emergency calls to summon armed police to a target's residence is called "swatting," which has been connected to suicides.
After being doxxed and swatted, Canadian campaigner Clara Sorrenti was compelled to leave her house. Even still, the harassment she was the target of from her online stalkers persisted and got worse. She has been in charge of an effort to get Cloudflare to remove Kiwi Farms.
The website went down on Sunday, according to an AP report, but a Kiwi Farms website with a.ru domain was discovered online. It appears to be registered to the Russian business DDoS-Guard. According to the story, the company previously provided protection for the US conservative social media network Parler last year after Amazon terminated hosting as a result of the attack on the US Capitol on January 6.
