Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, has long expressed discomfort about his company's potential role of deciding what can and cannot be online. It is a position echoed by others in Silicon Valley who argue it shouldn't be up to them to police speech online.

"This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare's role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with," Prince wrote in a blog post Saturday after blocking Kiwi Farms.

But, he said the rhetoric on Kiwi Farms "and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before."

we're only a couple steps and a fαℓѕє fℓαg attack [say, the murder of a sodomite] before any sites that express disapproval of sodomy or other such aberrations are shut down as [somewhat less than] immediate threat to human life.

Cloudflare is a service though. They stand in between websites and customers, basically masking the REAL location of a website, so Denial-of-Service attacks can't reach the actual website target. It functions like a shield of sorts.

Basically I would point CathInfo to "Cloudflare", and that's the only IP address you'd ever see. You physically couldn't see the IP address where CathInfo REALLY resides; only Cloudflare would know this. They would stand out in front of CathInfo and block any Denial of Service attacks.

That's my understanding of what Cloudflare does. They might offer other services too, but nothing you can't get elsewhere.

Basically, the common wisdom is that once you reach a certain size, or a certain prominence/importance, you NEED services like Cloudflare to protect you or you WILL fall victim (collapse because of) DoS and DDoS attacks.

That was it. They fαℓѕє fℓαgged multiple swattings and blamed it on kiwifarms. Using it as an excuse to take down the forum, so people have no place to speak freely online unless it's the politically correct narrative.

Cloudflare blocking the site was the final straw. There are no other options equipped to handle the forum.

This is unprecedented within the age of the Internet and I'm sure any sort of free speech the Internet still had will be handled similarly.

Clicking on any thread results in blank content (even though the page numbers are there).  I've tried different browsers, refreshing, clearing cache.  Not hopeful that this post will go through.

I broke it -- sorry about that. I made a change to the upvote/downvote system, and apparently made a typo.

Just tried to upthumb someone and it wouldn't work.