As well as ongoing criticism on social platforms and a declining share price.
Cloudflare has finally dropped Kiwi Farms, a forum dedicated to doxxing, harassing, and threatening violence against trans people, amid ongoing backlash against its customer policies.
Kiwi Farms has been around since 2013. The most recent calls for Cloudflare to drop the forum as a customer—which should make it far more difficult for its users to doxx or harass their victims—came as Twitch streamer Clara «Keffals» Sorrenti documented her struggles to keep her family safe after Kiwi Farms users «swatted» her as part of their ongoing campaign against her.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and Global Head of Public Policy Alissa Starzak said in an Aug. 31 blog post that the company, which provided Kiwi Farms protection against distributed-denial of service (DDoS) and served as its content delivery network (CDN), wouldn’t drop the forum as a customer despite knowing that its users were threatening the privacy and safety of many people.
Prince and Starzak said:Today, more than 20 percent of the web uses Cloudflare’s security services.
