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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/6\/23339889\/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-content-moderation-ddos<\/a>
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Today let\u2019s talk about Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare, and whether infrastructure providers ought to take more responsibility for content moderation than they have generally taken.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Ben Collins and Kat Tenbarge wrote about the situation at NBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sorrenti, known to fans of her streaming channel as \u201cKeffals,\u201d says that when her front door opened on Aug. 5<\/a> the first thing she saw was a police officer\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

Police say Sorrenti\u2019s home in London, Ontario, had been swatted after someone impersonated her in an email<\/a> and said she was planning to perpetrate a mass shooting outside of London\u2019s City Hall. After Sorrenti was arrested, questioned and released, the London police chief vowed to investigate<\/a> and find who made the threat. Those police were eventually doxxed on Kiwi Farms and threatened. The people who threatened and harassed Sorrenti, her family and police officers investigating her case have not been identified.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In response to the harassment, Sorrenti began a campaign to pressure Cloudflare into no longer providing its security services to Kiwi Farms. Thanks to her popularity on Twitch, and the urgency of the issue, #DropKiwiFarms and #CloudflareProtectsTerrorists both trended on Twitter. And the question became what Cloudflare \u2014 a company that has been famously resistant to intervening in matters of content moderation \u2014 would do about it.<\/p>\n

Most casual web surfers may be unaware of Cloudflare\u2019s existence. But the company\u2019s offerings are essential to the functioning of the internet. And it provided at least three services that have been invaluable to Kiwi Farms.<\/p>\n

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