Cloudflare reverses decision and drops trans trolling website Kiwi Farms
by Nino Bucci from Technology | The Guardian on (#637WD)
Internet infrastructure company says it blocked Kiwi Farms because the threats on the site escalated enough in the last 48 hours'
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Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare says it has blocked" a notorious trolling website that harasses and doxxes trans people, days after indicating it had no plans to do so because it regretted taking similar action in the past.
Cloudflare, which provides protection to websites from distributed denial-of-service attacks, had been under pressure to cease protecting Kiwi Farms, a community forum website that frequently targets trans people online.
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