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The Death of the Internet by the KiwiFarms owner (2021)

4 pointsby quazarover 2 years ago

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traszover 2 years ago
Interestingly, Joshua Moon (the main perpetrator behind KF, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiwifarmswiki.com&#x2F;index.php?title=Joshua_Conner_Moon" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiwifarmswiki.com&#x2F;index.php?title=Joshua_Conner_M...</a>, and article’s author) is not just about anti-trans harassment, he is into traditional terrorism too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32711617" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32711617</a>
nkurzover 2 years ago
Regardless of your feelings on KiwiFarms, this is a topical article with some prescient quotes regarding their choice of relying on Cloudflare:<p>&quot;Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, is an outlier in the elite of Silicon Valley. He is the one person whose default position on censorship is &quot;no&quot;. Cloudflare has removed two websites explicitly aligned with neo-Nazism, but ordinarily, they refuse to buckle to the mob. Why? I don&#x27;t know. Maybe he&#x27;s just libertarian. Maybe he wants the Internet to be free, like it used to be. Maybe he&#x27;s a government informant (there&#x27;s a popular conspiracy theory that Cloudflare is a large man-in-the-middle spyware operation). Even if he is, I don&#x27;t care. My website is legal and there&#x27;s nothing on it that&#x27;s not public anyways.<p>Prince is just one man, however, and I have no doubt that when he retires he will be replaced by less of a man. Some political activists who endeavor to censor the Internet are simply waiting for the day he&#x27;s gone. There are other DDoS mitigation services, but they&#x27;re much smaller, often not as capable, and not in as strong a position to say &quot;no&quot;. When he is out of power, it will cause a vacuum that will negatively impact the health of the Internet, and he will not be readily replaced by anything.&quot;