Cloudflare Hints It Won’t Cut Ties With Site Linked to Hate

After days of silence, Cloudflare Inc. suggested Wednesday it wouldn’t cede to pressure to terminate internet services for controversial discussion forum Kiwi Farms, issuing a statement about its policies on abuse and saying that it didn’t want to set a precedent for speech on the internet.

Cloudflare, which provides products from web security services to web hosting and internet technology, has been under pressure to drop Kiwi Farms as a customer after the online forum known for harassment and hate campaigns recently forced a well-known transgender Twitch streamer into hiding. The Anti-Defamation League has referred to Kiwi Farms as “an extremist-friendly forum that has been the breeding ground for countless harassment campaigns.”