Kiwi Farms, the notorious message board known for doxing, threats, and hate speech, has been back online for several months after a much-publicized campaign to remove it from the internet initially succeeded.
The protest pressured Cloudflare, a major content delivery and DDoS mitigation company, to drop the website from its services. After a series of jumps across providers, including Russian DDoS-Guard, the beleaguered message board is once again accessible thanks to two companies known to provide services to far-right websites: VanwaTech and Epik.
Dubbed “the web’s biggest community of stalkers,” Kiwi Farms is notorious for hosting threads where users share the private information of private individuals and engage in targeted harassment. Three suicides have been linked to harassment campaigns on the site since it was launched in 2013. Founder Joshua “Null” Moon has denied Kiwi Farms’ culpability in anyone’s death in multiple posts on the website.
Now, it’s being helped up by the same people who hosted sites owned by some of the far-right’s most notorious figures.
Whois records show Epik provides the domain name service, which allows internet users to easily access the site from their web browser. In layman’s terms, VanwaTech hosts KiwiFarm’s hate-party while Epik provides directions to get there.
Epik is a controversial domain name provider and web host whose customers include social media sites like Parler and Gab as well as far-right forum TheDonald. Epik’s founder and board chairman, Rob Monster, is known for his free-speech absolutist stances. VanwaTech’s young founder, Nick Lim, previously founded BitMitigate, a website security company that was acquired by Epik.
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