Let's not give cloudflare praise for dropping kiwifarms
In the interview, Prince said he was uncomfortable dropping Kiwi Farms despite its content and would have preferred to have done so only in response to a court order
If it wasn't for pressure from
https://www.dropkiwifarms.net/
Then it would still be up
Apparently
Change the .net to .ru and kiwifarms is back
Not tested that myself yet
.ru, and you can see that hosting and DDOS protection is being supplied by DDOS-Guard located in Russia.
Kiwi Farms, the next company people'll be applying pressure to is Fiberhub, who actually physically hosts them
All that said
230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act
Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230)
In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content
In short, CDA 230 is perhaps the most influential law to protect the kind of innovation that has allowed the Internet to thrive since 1996
Laws aside People power works in holding companies accountable
color me surprised...
Also cloudflare musta known about kiwifarms history before they became a customer of theirs
widespread reporting of a suicide led to Kiwi Farms being dropped by their domain register, DreamHost, forcing them to go with Cloudflare
They knew
they ignored
Until pressure from campaigns