A long piece which serves up Truth Tapas you can use to fuel other looks at other companies still sitting on the fence with bad actors using their services. I had hear of the Sorrenti case by wetting my toes on the initial story about $NET & KiwiFarms. What I did not know was the cops who answered the SWATTING of Sorrenti at home have also been SWATTED by nefarious trolls on KiwiFarms as well:
The Verge headline: HOW CLOUDFLARE GOT KIWI FARMS WRONG
Sub-headline: Why more platforms need to close the stochastic terrorism loophole
By Casey Newton@CaseyNewton Sep 6, 2022, 8:00pm EDT
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/6/23339889/cloudflare-kiwi-f…
Today let’s talk about Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare, and whether infrastructure providers ought to take more responsibility for content moderation than they have generally taken.
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Kiwi Farms is a nearly 10-year-old web forum, founded by a former administrator for the popular QAnon wasteland 8chan, that has become notorious for waging online harassment campaigns against LBGT people, women, and others. It came to popular attention in recent weeks after a well known Twitch creator named Clara Sorrenti spoke out against the recent wave of anti-trans legislation in the United States, leading to terrifying threats and violence against her by people who organized on Kiwi Farms.
Ben Collins and Kat Tenbarge wrote about the situation at NBC:
"Sorrenti, known to fans of her streaming channel as “Keffals,” says that when her front door opened on Aug. 5 the first thing she saw was a police officer’s gun pointed at her face. It was just the beginning of a weekslong campaign of stalking, threats and violence against Sorrenti that ended up making her flee the country.
Police say Sorrenti’s home in London, Ontario, had been swatted after someone impersonated her in an email and said she was planning to perpetrate a mass shooting outside of London’s City Hall. After Sorrenti was arrested, questioned and released, the London police chief vowed to investigate and find who made the threat. Those police were eventually doxxed on Kiwi Farms and threatened. The people who threatened and harassed Sorrenti, her family and police officers investigating her case have not been identified."