Kiwifarms just got blocked by Cloudflare

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[–][deleted] 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I don't think the claims of violence are legitimate is the thing. i occasionally read Kiwifarms and, like this site, calls to violence or anything else that breaks US law are not allowed. I am also a shareholder of Cloudflare so I'm doubly pissed about their weaseling.

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    [–]ClassroomPast6178 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

    Yeah, and Keffals was posting photos whilst “in hiding” in a hotel. Obviously, completely afraid of being found.

    As for how her location was compromised, Sorrenti is a bit unclear, but said it could be chalked up to a photo she posted of her cat. source

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      [–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      But it obviously wasn't meticulously planned and arranged, no sir! Just honest, grass-roots activism all the way.

      [–]Datachost 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      It looks like the "threats" were a post on /pol/ (so not even KF) threatening keffals which among other things featured the words "Ethan "The gunt" Ralph made me do this" and a KF post saying someone had called their friends and had them plant bombs at every poutine place in Belfast as well as 3 armed men waiting at each. Both of those are so clearly jokes.

      [–]brimshaeBased Woodchipper Merchant 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      There was an account that had been dormant for two years, as well as an obvious false flag on 4/pol/.

      https://kiwifarms.ru/threads/matthew-prince-lied.128900/#post-12906385

      Brackets are my clarifications.

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

      He elaborates in his post [about CloudFlare coming to the rescue of predditors], and claims violent rhetoric had ramped up.

      This seems to be based off one of two things:

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

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

      ....

      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 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.

      ....

      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.

      ....

      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.