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There was a recent controversy where an activist named "Keffals" posted something violent and threatening on KiwiFarms about herself, screenshotted and deleted it (it's not clear to me whether she deleted the post or if it was removed, however I know her account was banned), and then used the screenshot to lobby CloudFlare to take down the site. After this became known CloudFlare has held steady in their commitment to not allow the site back up.

That said it's not an especially nice site, however where CloudFlare has removed sites in the past they've slowly been censoring less and less radical sites, which has people concerned since it's a "backbone of the internet" type service. Ironically CloudFlare made a blog post a few days before banning KiwiFarms expressing this exact sentiment before doubling back on it https://archive.ph/gJXgF




>There was a recent controversy where an activist named "Keffals" posted something violent and threatening on KiwiFarms about herself, screenshotted and deleted it

There is not a citation big enough for this holy shit

>That said it's not an especially nice site

It's a site that encourages people to literally commit suicide. But you seem to have an agenda in your comment


With all due respect I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about


None of that sounds like censorship though?




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