<story><title>Blocking Kiwifarms</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slothsarecool</author><text>Just adding some light to the escalations; there were bomb and shoot threats over the last few days.
The userbase on the site upped the tone of their &amp;quot;jokes&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;threats after the last blog post and thats what caused the final suspension.</text></item><item><author>ffwszgf</author><text>Cloudflare can do whatever it wants but I wish they were honest about it.&lt;p&gt;The claim that there has been some “dangerous escalation” in the past 2 weeks is nonsense. If anything the owner has been monitoring the thread more proactively and making sure people follow the law. This is included not allowing the creation of new accounts and reminding everyone that their data will be turned over to the authorities should it be requested.&lt;p&gt;The only thing that picked up steam in the last two weeks is the campaign to drop Cloudflare and the media attention on the situation. That’s why they caved in. It got big enough to reach Bloomberg&amp;#x2F;wsj&amp;#x2F;congress. Just be honest about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stepupmakeup</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know what happened prior to today, but earlier today there was a bomb threat which was apparently removed by the site&amp;#x27;s moderators within minutes, but it hit Twitter anyway. The fact that this isn&amp;#x27;t mentioned anywhere by the people currently leading the &amp;quot;campaign&amp;quot; already proves there&amp;#x27;s an agenda.</text></comment>
<story><title>Blocking Kiwifarms</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slothsarecool</author><text>Just adding some light to the escalations; there were bomb and shoot threats over the last few days.
The userbase on the site upped the tone of their &amp;quot;jokes&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;threats after the last blog post and thats what caused the final suspension.</text></item><item><author>ffwszgf</author><text>Cloudflare can do whatever it wants but I wish they were honest about it.&lt;p&gt;The claim that there has been some “dangerous escalation” in the past 2 weeks is nonsense. If anything the owner has been monitoring the thread more proactively and making sure people follow the law. This is included not allowing the creation of new accounts and reminding everyone that their data will be turned over to the authorities should it be requested.&lt;p&gt;The only thing that picked up steam in the last two weeks is the campaign to drop Cloudflare and the media attention on the situation. That’s why they caved in. It got big enough to reach Bloomberg&amp;#x2F;wsj&amp;#x2F;congress. Just be honest about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rejectfinite</author><text>There are &amp;quot;bomb and shoot threats over the last few days&amp;quot; on FB, Messenger, Telegram, Signal, CoD&amp;#x2F;CS lobbies etc everyday. Like Kiwifarms the content is removed when reported. What is the issue?</text></comment>