Increasing pressure to Cloudflare for dropping Kiwi farms; #dropkiwifarms trending on Twitter

The alt-right forum Kiwi Farms is being protected by website security company Cloudflare, according to trans political commentator and streamer Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, who alleges Kiwi Farms is a hotbed of doxxing and unending hatred. This is true even though she was compelled to flee her native Canada and go into hiding. Sorrenti started the popular hashtags #DropKiwifarms and#CloudflareProtectsTerrorists this week.

Some Twitter users, the bulk of whom appear to be trans, are in favor of #DropKiwifarms. They are using it as a chance to talk about their own experiences with the forum, which is accused of bullying its targets and even inspiring some of them to commit suicide by utilizing doxxing, swatting, and other forms of intimidation.

Despite years of public outcry—New Yorker dubbed the website the internet’s “biggest stalker community” in 2016—and evidence of Kiwi Farms users’ illegal behavior plastered all over its forums, Cloudflare, which did not respond to Kotaku’s request for comment in time for publication, continues to provide its services to the site. The business previously decided to stop promoting the neo-Nazi message board Daily Stormer after “the crew behind Daily Stormer assumed that we were surreptitiously champions of their concept,” according to a 2017 blog post by Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince.

Others, however, assert that when they were requested to stop supporting Kiwi Farms, staff members from Cloudflare, including Justin Paine, head of trust and safety, blocked them on Twitter. In response to the campaign he started to convince Cloudflare to remove Kiwifarms, Sorrenti said on Twitter that “My family has been targeted and threats have been made against them explicitly.”