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A return to Kiwi Farms

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A return to Kiwi Farms

A year after the Cloudflare controversy, the site's resilience speaks to the limits of deplatforming

Casey Newton
Sep 6, 2023
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In this photo illustration a Cloudflare Inc. logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Igor Golovniov / Getty Images)
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Today let’s talk about a pair of cases that speak both to the power and limits of deplatforming. While pushing bad actors off a site is often the right move, some obvious gaps in internet governance mean that they often retain their power to do harm.

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A year ago Wednesday, I wrote about one of the year’s most memorable con…

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