Private companies like Cloudflare are certainly within their rights to terminate services to platforms they deem dangerous or offensive. In a liberal, pluralistic society, trying to deny entire groups of people the right to speak or associate is not great. Of course, there's also a more ideological or symbolic component. Those are the utilitarian reasons why the campaign to drive "dangerous" speech off the internet is misguided. It's hard to challenge information or ideas that are exchanged more privately. And if you're worried that certain platforms are hotbeds of hate or disinformation, it's better that those who would counter them can actually see what's being said. This way people can keep tabs on them, and platform operators are subject to subpoenas and other law enforcement requests. are harboring actual criminal actors, it's better for these sites to be accessible and hosted in the U.S. If you're worried that adult advertising platforms, fringe-right forums, etc. No group has ever gotten less radicalized by being driven underground, and no economic sector has ever gotten safer by being driven into a black market.
The situation showcases once again how campaigns to rid the internet of supposed "hate speech"-or any particular type of speech-are doomed.įrom pirated literature and academic papers to sex worker ads, MAGA organizing, or fringe forums, where's there's a will-and a pluralistic, global internet-there's a way. And the forum now seems to be operating normally. (If you're curious about all the technical twists and turns, see this thread.) But by September 15, the main Kiwi Farms domain was back up.
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But today, Kiwi Farms seems to be back and doing just fine.Īfter Cloudflare canceled Kiwi Farms' domain registration and DDoS mitigation services on September 3, the forum was temporarily inaccessible via its main URL ( ), though it could still be accessed on alternate domains during that period.
It's been a little over a month since the internet services company Cloudflare terminated its relationship with Kiwi Farms, a web forum accused of fomenting harassment campaigns.
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