Cloudflare percolated back into the news cycle last week when the company, which provides security services to websites, blocked Kiwi Farms as a client. Kiwi Farms has a reputation as being the worst trolling site on the internet, where individuals meet to collate and create action plans targeting individuals for both online and physical harassment including doxing and swatting (taking action that results in a police SWAT team arriving at a given address to neutralize the reported threat to life).
Social networks were aflame with calls for Cloudflare to cease providing their services to Kiwi Farms. Indeed, a recent Vice article highlighted the case of Clara Sorrenti, also known as Keffals, an online streamer who has been doxed multiple times and was arrested on August 5 amidst a raid on her home as a result of swatting, highlighted how there have been at least three cases of individuals committing suicide as a result of the targeted harassment received as a result of the actions taking place on Kiwifarms.
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