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A small Vancouver web hosting firm with a history of helping controversial websites has recently struck a deal to help another notorious internet community. Nick Lim, founder of VanwaTech, confirmed to OPB on Tuesday that his company is providing hosting services to Kiwi Farms, an internet message board under intense scrutiny for hateful content posted by some of its users. According to NBC News, Kiwi Farms is currently at the “epicenter of vicious, anti-trans harassment campaigns,” with some users doxxing and filing false police reports against people. The message board had temporarily fallen off the internet over the weekend. Its last web services provider, Cloudflare, blocked Kiwi Farms amid a heightened public pressure campaign. Cloudflare wrote that, in recent weeks, the message… Source link

The story so far: Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare caved in to pressure on Saturday. The U.S.-based company blocked the notorious messaging board Kiwi Farms from its platform. Their decision to de-platform the site came after Canadian activist Clara Sorrenti and her supporters strongly criticised the company for providing security to the site against DDoS attacks. Ms. Sorrenti claimed that Kiwi Farms organised a swatting campaign against her, which led to her arrest in August. While the web-hosting service first expressed its discomfort with the idea last week, Cloudflare confirmed on September 4 that it had blocked Kiwi Farms. A day later, the Russia-based DDoS-Guard also announced it was terminating DDoS protection services for a version of the Kiwi Farms website. On… Source link

A Russia-based provider has cut web protection services to the notorious stalking and harassment website Kiwi Farms, making the forum inaccessible on the public internet A Russia-based provider has cut web protection services to the notorious stalking and harassment website Kiwi Farms, making the forum inaccessible on the public internet A Russia-based provider cut web protection services on Monday to Kiwi Farms, becoming the second provider in two days to abandon the notorious stalking and harassment site and leaving it inaccessible on the public internet. (Sign up to our Technology newsletter, Today’s Cache, for insights on emerging themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Click here to subscribe for free.) DDoS-Guard said it doesn’t have to decide whether… Source link

A Russia-based provider has cut web protection services to the notorious stalking and harassment website Kiwi Farms, making the forum inaccessible on the public internet A Russia-based provider has cut web protection services to the notorious stalking and harassment website Kiwi Farms, making the forum inaccessible on the public internet A Russia-based provider cut web protection services on Monday to Kiwi Farms, becoming the second provider in two days to abandon the notorious stalking and harassment site and leaving it inaccessible on the public internet. (Sign up to our Technology newsletter, Today’s Cache, for insights on emerging themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Click here to subscribe for free.) DDoS-Guard said it doesn’t have to decide whether… Source link

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Russia-based provider has cut web protection services to the notorious stalking and harassment website Kiwi Farms, making the forum inaccessible on the public internet. DDoS-Guard’s move follows Saturday’s cutoff of the forum by  California-based Cloudfare, its longtime provider. The moves cap a fierce campaign led by transgender Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti, who goes by “Keffals” online. Kiwi Farms has been a rallying forum for the vicious harassment and doxxing transgender people, feminists and people of color. BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION News Channel 3-12 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation. Please keep your comments respectful… Source link