>We just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time. The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.
>Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit.
Cloudflare should drop Kiwi Forums as a customer based on this. In fact Kiwi Forums might be worse because it specifically exists to discuss and coordinate harassment, doxing, and stalking of others both online and offline. 8chan was at least ostensibly "just" an anonymous imageboard with a lack of moderation. Kiwi Forums has no justifiable reason to be kept online and Cloudflare's association with it should be kept in mind when chosing to do business with Cloudflare.
Same applies to Dreamhost, their domain registrar. No, kicking them off these platforms won't shutdown the site. They'll move to a Russian DDoS protection service like 8chan did. But there's no reason for Cloudflare/Dreamhost to make it easy for Kiwi Forums to exist, or to continue to receive revenue by hosting them.
>We just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time. The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.
>Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit.
Cloudflare should drop Kiwi Forums as a customer based on this. In fact Kiwi Forums might be worse because it specifically exists to discuss and coordinate harassment, doxing, and stalking of others both online and offline. 8chan was at least ostensibly "just" an anonymous imageboard with a lack of moderation. Kiwi Forums has no justifiable reason to be kept online and Cloudflare's association with it should be kept in mind when chosing to do business with Cloudflare.
Same applies to Dreamhost, their domain registrar. No, kicking them off these platforms won't shutdown the site. They'll move to a Russian DDoS protection service like 8chan did. But there's no reason for Cloudflare/Dreamhost to make it easy for Kiwi Forums to exist, or to continue to receive revenue by hosting them.