A second web-hosting and security provider has dropped a shadow site for the notorious hate-spewing social media site Kiwi Farms, the second time in two days that the site has been deplatformed, the Associated Press reports. The move essentially removes any public access to the site.
DDoS-Guard, a Russia-based web-hosting service, said it dropped a Russian version of Kiwi Farms that featured the .ru as the top level domain. The site may have been a back-up site for the main site that up until Saturday had been hosted by Cloudflare, an American hosting service. The site had been activated intermittently since Cloudfare cut off service.
“Having analyzed the content of the site, we decided on the termination of DDoS protection services” for a version of the Kiwi Farms site with a Russian .ru domain name, the DDoS-Guard said in a statement. The company said it had received multiple complaints about Kiwi Farms, which fosters a homophobic, misogynistic and transphobic boards where users target people for harassment and terroristic threats.