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.
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