We have blocked Kiwifarms. Visitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post.

CloudFlare is dropping KiwiFarms

  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
    8•2 years ago

    Only because people raised such a stink and actually threatened their bottom line with people boycotting them. That’s literally the only fucking reason. Anyone who thinks it’s actually because of silly things like “not wanting to be associated with such a disgusting, festering cesspool of a site” is naïve. It’s the exact same situation as they had with 8chan.

    • @jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
      4•2 years ago

      Anyone who thinks it’s actually because of silly things like “not wanting to be associated with such a disgusting, festering cesspool of a site” is naïve.

      Not sure where you got this from, this didn’t seem to be in the CloudFlare blog post anywhere

  • @onlooker@lemmy.ml
    3•2 years ago

    However, the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before.

    Unprecedented?!

    • @rysiekOP
      9•2 years ago

      Totally. Good riddance.

      That said, it does raise questions about who gets to decide (and on what grounds) who stays online. However, the actual problem with this is best exemplified by this little sentence from their previous blogpost (on how they are not going to block KW):

      Today, more than 20 percent of the web relies directly on Cloudflare’s services.

      That’s the underlying problem. If a website gets dropped by a provider that serves, say ~2% of the Internet, no biggie. If it gets dropped by 50 similar providers, well, clearly nobody wants to do business with you.

      But if such decisions are made between a few huge providers, each handling a good 1/5th of global web traffic? Then yes, there is a bit of bad aftertaste. Which only allows the dweebs from KiwiFarms and such of this world to cry “censorship”.

        • @rysiekOP
          5•2 years ago

          There will always be some kind of authority.

          Sure, I never said there isn’t, or that there should not be. I only said that this question is raised.

          In an anarchist context this can be community consensus, I guess. In nation state context, this can be a government decision or a court order. And so on.

          What I am trying to underscore here is that the fact that a company’s decision to not do business with a particularly toxic customer should not be of such immense consequence. And the only reason it is is because of CloudFlare’s position.

          CloudFlare’s position is a bigger problem than CloudFlare’s policies.