Kiwifarms just got blocked by Cloudflare

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[–]Drewski 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've posted about it multiple times, Cloudflare is not to be trusted. They're a potential MITM attack vector for any site that uses them (including Saidit) and like Amazon AWS are a major part of the centralization and control of the internet.

[–]QueenBread 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Interestingly, Russia has become the new bastion of freedom as it's pretty much taking anything that 'murica censors.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/

They're back up at Kiwifarms.ru now.

[–]brimshae 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'll copy over my comment from s/TumblrInAction:

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).

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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.)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

[–]Reed_Solomon 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There need to be consequences for the liars on twitter who use lies to push an agenda. That said, the internet should not be dependant on cloudflare to function.

[–]dissidentrhetoric 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why rely on cloudflare if they are just going to block your site.

[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Clowdflare needs to be deplatformed.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They caved to public pressure, and that ain't great, but I think the real sin here is all the platforms that push Keffal's twisted version of things and ignore the truth that led to this. They don't even mention the other side of this at all. To a normie it looks like an evil hate site got taken down because that's all they're told about it.

Searching "Kiwifarms" is handy for finding all the compromised news sources, although this whole thing is worrisome because this place makes KF look like a bunch of reddit normies sometimes. By virtue of being small I guess nobody bothers with us.