The English -speaking website, which is the source of violent harassment campaigns aimed at in particular transgender people, was released after hacking, announced its founder on Monday
Le Monde with AFP
The Kiwi Farms website, a forum where harassment campaigns are fomented against transgender people, is no longer online due to hacking, the founder of the platform, Joshua Moon, announced in a updated press release Monday September 9. “You must start from the principle that your password has been stolen, and that your email and any content published on your Kiwi Farms account last month were downloaded,” he warned. He explains that he does not know if data has been recovered or not, and ensures that he will soon restore the site from a backup.
This hacking is the last twist in a matter of harassment whose epicenter is this forum, considered one of the most toxic of the Internet, And who led several companies to break their links with him or to publicly display their refusal to protect the site against possible cyber attacks.
On September 3, Cloudflare, a company specializing in infrastructure and services for websites, announced that it had blocked Kiwi Farms. “Declarations on the site and targeted threats rose in power in the last forty-eight hours, to the point that we think that there is an unprecedented emergency and an immediate threat to human life, at a level never seen Previously on Kiwi Farms or at any other customer, “said Matthew Prince, the company’s co -founder and boss. 2>” Dangerous pervert ”
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, was the subject of pressure from activists from the LGBTQI+community, who hoped to expose Kiwi Farms to cyber attacks. The forum contained a lot of information on trans or non-binary people, and incentives to harass it or to denounce it for false crimes in the police, according to the NBC News channel.
Cloudflare had explained that he had made this decision “extraordinary” and “dangerous”, not because of “ignoble content” or even ethical pressures, but only to protect human lives, because the police act ” more slowly than the danger progresses “.
On September 15, Diamwall, another online security company, also suspended its services in Kiwi Farms. “We do not think it is fair to end a service because of public pressure, but in this case we believe that there are foundations behind all these requests,” said Hugo Carvalho, the director general of the company.
Joshua Moon, for his part, said in his statement that he finds it difficult to contain his “legitimate indignation” against the pirates, these “dangerous perverts imbued with themselves”. Paradoxical statements to say the least from the creator of a forum behind a wave of harassment targeting the Canadian and Transgender activist Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, which was obliged, before the violence of the attacks targeting it, flee your own house.