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People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms

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Re: People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms

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Post by camdv »

corndoge wrote: post #8

FTA: > People on Twitter, as well as Sorrenti, claimed that the official Cloudflare account hid replies on its tweets related to dropping Kiwi Farms, and then deleted tweets that were ratioed by people talking about the campaign. Cloudflare’s Twitter account normally posted at least daily before this week, but hasn’t tweeted in four days, as of writing. What is the meaning of “ratioed” in this sentence?

From Know Your Meme: The Ratio or Ratioed refers to an unofficial Twitter law which states that if the amount of replies to a tweet greatly outnumbers the number of retweets and likes, then the tweet is bad. Additionally, "to ratio" a tweet means to make a quote retweet or reply that manages to get more likes and retweets than the quoted post.

Re: People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms

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Post by deepdriver »

ars wrote: post #9
donkarma wrote: post #2

despite cloudflare claiming to be neutral it has deplatformed in the past and can do so again

I was all set to write a comment about how I'm not OK with private companies deciding who can exist on the internet - but then I remembered that all CloudFlare does is caching and DDOS protection. Without CloudFlare the website would still be accessible on the Internet. And to me that makes a big difference.

The implication is that Keffals and friends will DDoS the site out of existence, as they have apparently tried to do numerous times. This is of course criminal but goes unmentioned.

Re: People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms

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Post by charcircuit »

>She claimed that users on Kiwi Farms, a notorious message board with a history of targeting and doxing vulnerable people, organized the raid and continued to harass her and numerous others.

I recommend reading https://kiwifarms.net/help/how-is-the-kiwi-farms-legal/

The site is legal and the majority of users follow the law.

>8chan, a popular website for terrorist manifestos.

It wasn't that popular of a site and it's purpose wasn't for terrorist manifestos. It's purpose was to be an image board where users could create their own boards. The global moderators took down content that was illegal to host in the US. The most popular topics of discussion were anime, politics, technology, and video games.

Since the media was biased against the site, once an excuse came up to get the site taken down they pounced. They painted a misleading picture of what the site was about in hopes they could take down the site. They won and destroyed many innocent communities that called that site their home.

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Post by [deleted] »

corndoge wrote: post #8

FTA: > People on Twitter, as well as Sorrenti, claimed that the official Cloudflare account hid replies on its tweets related to dropping Kiwi Farms, and then deleted tweets that were ratioed by people talking about the campaign. Cloudflare’s Twitter account normally posted at least daily before this week, but hasn’t tweeted in four days, as of writing. What is the meaning of “ratioed” in this sentence?

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Re: People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms

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Post by HereIGoAgain »

xupybd wrote: post #6

Kiwi Farms is a horrible abomination. One of the worst cesspits on the internet. They were sharing videos of the Christchurch massacre right after it happened. As a New Zealander it felt doubly disrespectful that they'd share that and use the name Kiwi. All of that said I respect Cloudflare staying neutral on this. Free speech is only free if we defend the speech we hate the most. Free speech has a bad name today but…

What laws do they break?

Re: People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms

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Post by HereIGoAgain »

binbashthefash wrote: post #7
bogantech wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But shouldn't

So it should replatform others to be fair I guess, otherwise it would seem to be favorable treatment for kiwi farms

What has KF done that puts it on the level of the sites (incorrectly) dropped in the past?

To be clear here, i'm coming from a POV that doesn't think a network infrastructure org has any business picking and choosing. That's how you break and ruin the net.

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