A notorious fringe message board is facing calls for its shutdown after life-threatening harassment

[Jilly_in_VA]

Kiwi Farms is an internet message board known for being an epicenter of vicious, anti-trans harassment campaigns. It has operated for nearly a decade with the backing of some tech companies that refuse to drop services for it. But now, as the site’s users launch a wave of anti-trans attacks, a trans Twitch streamer targeted by Kiwi Farms is spearheading an unprecedented campaign to take down the fringe website.

Clara Sorrenti and those supporting her are hoping to open up Kiwi Farms to debilitating virtual attacks by demanding Cloudflare, one of its internet security service vendors, drop the site. Cloudflare has so far refused to budge.

In a public statement posted Wednesday, under Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s byline, the company said that it will not drop security services for any of its customers. (The statement did not mention Kiwi Farms by name.) A Cloudflare representative referred NBC News to the blog post when reached for comment.

If the ongoing efforts to close the forum fail, experts warn Kiwi Farms’ target list and techniques could expand as culture war issues gain more attention ahead of the 2024 election, potentially affecting more LGBTQ private citizens or creating a national security threat with the expansion of Kiwi Farms’ harassment tactics to new targets.

Kiwi Farms has become synonymous with doxxing (the release of an individual’s identifying information with malicious intent), swatting (a term for when an anonymous person sends an urgent, false tip to the police about a violent crime in a victim’s home in the hopes that law enforcement will raid it and potentially harm the person inside), and archiving controversial materials such as manifestos by mass shooters and recordings of their livestreams.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-keffals-anti-trans-rcna44834

Never heard of this outfit, but they sound horrible

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I want you to look at this 'founder and owner' Joshua Moon. How ultimately slappable is this?

[TheBlackAdder]

3. He'll be getting slapped when he gets in prison.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

8. So many words come to mind...

Incel.
Snowflake.
Gutless wonder.
Basement-dweller.
Coward.
Man-child.
Crybaby.
Punchable face.

I recall a former friend of mine posting a sexist and transphobic meme 11~ years ago about "Rugged Democrats and their handsome good looks". I won't say who was depicted, just that that was the beginning of the end of our friendship. It did not last very long after that.

Well, this biological mistake should be depicted in a similar meme... "Tough MAGA and their handsome good looks." Because he's about as tough as butter sitting out in the sun for 12 hours. He's about as rugged as a marshmallow. Another spineless, whiny, poopy-pants snowflake who's only "tough" when he can terrorize vulnerable people with his similar loser friends.

Arrest this proud member of Ya'll Cryda. And if you want to use a billy club or a taser, hey, sounds good to me.

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Backpfeifengesicht

The have the perfect word for it in Germany.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

11. Ah yes

One that I certainly need to memorize... At moments like that, I try to recall it and draw a blank beyond the first syllable..

That's a perfect word.. Yes indeed.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Some hidden issues in that boy.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. he likes to throw out the fa**ot word but omg my gaydar went off.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Indeed.

[Ocelot II]

6. His picture is in the dictionary next to the definition of "incel."

[IngridsLittleAngel]

7. And they're dropped... Except they already have new servers... In Russia

https://kotaku.com/kiwifarms-cloudflare-dropkiwifarms-threats-security-1849496191

Ahhh, remember the good ol' days, when that very stable genius Sarah Palin was warning us about Russia, along with saying she could see them from her own back yard? Good times...

Now, of course, MAGA loves Mother Russia, just like their "Daddy" Drumpf does.

Also, according to at least one comment from this article: The breaking point for Gutless Cloudflare was when Kiwi Farms were trying to figure out which restaurant Keffals was planning to eat it and plant bombs there. Yeah. Bombs.

So I guess bombing is too far, but doxxing and stalking and planning to kill one trans woman is okay, Cloudflare? Well, glad we now know where your line is.

Meanwhile, this is how our "American patriots" act. Stalking, doxxing, death threats and plots involving bombs. Gee, remember when everyone was so angry about Muslims and bomb threats and blowing up places? More good times... Because now, according to UltraMAGA, doing so is just fine...

President Biden's speech was long overdue. I hope everyone's listening. And by that, I mean LibsOfTikTok need to be next. And I don't mean just throw them off social media. I mean it's time for these people to wind up behind bars like the terrorists they are.

[Jilly_in_VA]

10. Because of course they do

And that founder/owner, whatever he is---he's so far back in the closet that even the lion and the witch can't find him...but they're looking anyway!