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Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service

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Re: Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service

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Post by Borgz »

schleck8 wrote: post #10

They host (or shield) a bunch of high-profile piracy sites (the largest repacker for example) and hosted Parler after it was kicked from AWS. I've never heard of anyone being suspended by DG. Great achievement, that surely wasn't easy.

It is quite surprising that they took action. I wonder if this will negatively affect DDoS-Guard's reputation as the first choice for hosting illegal content.

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Post by Borgz »

dmitri_ignat wrote: post #20
schleck8 wrote: post #10

They host (or shield) a bunch of high-profile piracy sites (the largest repacker for example) and hosted Parler after it was kicked from AWS. I've never heard of anyone being suspended by DG. Great achievement, that surely wasn't easy.

It's rare, but it has happened before. 8chan/8kun and Hamas managed to get suspended by DG.

I wonder what their suspension criteria is. Maybe it's just "too much bad press"?

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Post by nemo44x »

Real principled stance there from their CEO - 3 days to totally flip-flop? I mean, if your stance is we will ban content we arbitrarily find bad then just state it as such. Put into your agreement terms precisely what is and isn’t allowed. Be consistent. This “conflicted” act makes them look weak and of questionable leadership.

Either take a principled stance on speech or put into your terms how you censor speech.

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Post by prvit »

Borgz wrote: post #26
dmitri_ignat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's rare, but it has happened before. 8chan/8kun and Hamas managed to get suspended by DG.

I wonder what their suspension criteria is. Maybe it's just "too much bad press"?

Of course that’s always one criteria. But at it’s core it just comes down to certain customer relationships being deeply unprofitable and not worth continuing.

Re: Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service

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Post by jl6 »

maccam912 wrote: post #22

Something I'm curious about in this whole thing: who is DDoSing kiwifarms? Most people find their content reprehensible but does that usually translate into people DDoSing something?

Just speculating, but I’m sure any internet thing involving drama at scale also involves DDoSes.
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