After being the target of a typically vile Kiwi Farms harassment campaign and managing to get Cloudflare to drop Kiwi Farms as a customer, Liz Fong-Jones investigated Kiwi's new host, discovering that the IP addresses used by 1776 Solutions LLC (Kiwi Farms) are part of APNIC's range and currently owned by a company called Flow Chemical, run by Brisbane man Vincent Zhen. Liz let the eSafety Commissioner know, but they did nothing, so Liz sued Flow Chemical for defamation a year ago. Today she won the case, mostly because Vincent ignored the lawsuit and didn't show up to defend themselves in the Victorian supreme court. Liz gets $455,000 plus legal costs for their trouble, but it's still a bit of a grey area if the owner of an Australian IP address can be liable for the defamatory content they host due to the default judgement.
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