Cloudflare, a high-profile online service and security company, has taken the largely unprecedented step of blocking access to its customer, the forum Kiwi Farms. Kiwi Farms, a chan-adjacent forum lin
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Cloudflare, a high-profile online service and security company, has taken the largely unprecedented step of blocking access to its customer (opens in new tab), the forum Kiwi Farms. Kiwi Farms, a chan-adjacent forum linked to multiple harassment campaigns, suicides, and the 2019 Christchurch shooting in New Zealand, has most recently played host to a concerted, life-threatening harassment campaign against the left-wing Twitch streamer Clara ‘Keffals’ Sorrenti that has forced her to flee her native Canada.
Sorrenti was swatted (opens in new tab) at the beginning of August, with the police of London, Ontario, coming to her home on August 5 in response to a fraudulent mass shooting threat made in Sorrenti’s name. Sorrenti moved to a hotel, where stalkers were able to identify her location (opens in new tab) by comparing the bedsheets in an image shared to Twitter against promotional images of hotels online.
