TechScape: How Kiwi Farms, the worst place on the web, was shut down

TechScape: How Kiwi Farms, the worst place on the web, was shut down

2 years ago
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/07/techscape-kiwi-farms-cloudflare

When users of the far-right forum harassed and stalked a trans streamer to the extent she fled her home, this is how Cloudflare pulled the plug … finally

You don’t need to know much about the online hate forum Kiwi Farms. In my first draft of this newsletter, I included a full history of the site, from its days as a spinoff of the far-right message board 8chan that was dedicated to the full-time harassment of a single internet micro-celebrity, to its involvement in the Christchurch shootings and multiple targets who went on to take their own lives. I discussed the detail of whether the site has an ideology that can be pinned down: the extent to which it is far-right, white supremacist, radically transphobic – or simply nihilistic and nasty.