Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
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Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#2It’s still available via its onion address. I think the more websites that are pushed onto the dark net is just going to increase its prevalence and use. I silencing bad behavior rather than confronting it, it’s just going to proliferate.
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#3It’s still available via its onion address. I think the more websites that are pushed onto the dark net is just going to increase its prevalence and use. I silencing bad behavior rather than confronting it, it’s just going to proliferate.
What's confronting it if it isn't silencing?
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#4If the operators want it to come back, it will come back. Like sci-hub and piratebay which have also been killed (and resurrected) multiple times. But from what I gather it sounds like they've probably thrown the towel...
Every time site blocking is done, the arguments are "you should prosecute the individuals doing illegal things on the site, not block the whole site outright". Yet here, it seems that everyone wanted to see the whole site gone?
I hadn't heard of KiwiFarms before maybe 2 months ago. I was curious and visited the site, just to find people there meticulously collecting links to YouTube videos and Instagram/Facebook screenshots of other people, and sometimes writing insulting things about them. But I have not seen anything that was a call to violence, doxxing, or anything else criminal, so I assume that it was really only a very small minority on these forums that engaged in these things. But I only checked the first 1 or 2 pages in each section, and most of it not very much in-depth, so I might have missed something.
Yes, the suicides that have been linked to KiwiFarms are a terrible thing that is inexcuasable, but I still get the feeling that the whole "block KF" campaign has been blowing this all a bit out of proportion.
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#5It’s still available via its onion address. I think the more websites that are pushed onto the dark net is just going to increase its prevalence and use. I silencing bad behavior rather than confronting it, it’s just going to proliferate.
But deplatforming works in general. You will never stop the most determined crazies but there is a huge amount of mentally disturbed people who are potentially violent but won’t be arsed to find a site through TOR.
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#6As a person who lived through Gamergate, my base assumption here is that the attacks Kiwifarms are alleged to have made are entirely fictional. This is something that I (and you) could possibly check if there was some kind of Archive of the Internet, but apparently that evidence was just destroyed for reasons which are not suspicious at all.
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#7It's still available at the other major archive site, e.g. https://archive.ph/uLpNt
And the site itself is still there at its ".top" domain, and its Tor hidden service.
I'd not heard of Kiwi Farms before this whole censorship attempt, but have been finding it fascinating reading over the past few days. Really quite depraved content, but oddly captivating, in a scurrilous kind of way. Feels like some sort of obsessively crowdsourced tabloid of online weirdos.
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#8If the operators want it to come back, it will come back. Like sci-hub and piratebay which have also been killed (and resurrected) multiple times. But from what I gather it sounds like they've probably thrown the towel... Every time site blocking is done, the arguments are "you should prosecute the individuals doing illegal things on the site, not block the whole site outright". Yet here, it seems that everyone wante…
It's just one operator, and he's experiencing some kind of unknown family emergency right now. Josh almost certainly hasn't thrown in the towel. Normally I'd link the page I got this information from, but now I'm not so sure. Interacting with the people being gossiped about is explicitly against the rules, it says so right above the posting box. They can't really prevent anyone from doing that, but neither could any other site.
Kiwi Farms is basically 4chan circa 2007. Make of that what you will.
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#9If the operators want it to come back, it will come back. Like sci-hub and piratebay which have also been killed (and resurrected) multiple times. But from what I gather it sounds like they've probably thrown the towel... Every time site blocking is done, the arguments are "you should prosecute the individuals doing illegal things on the site, not block the whole site outright". Yet here, it seems that everyone wante…
It's just one operator, and he's experiencing some kind of unknown family emergency right now. Josh almost certainly hasn't thrown in the towel. Normally I'd link the page I got this information from, but now I'm not so sure. Interacting with the people being gossiped about is explicitly against the rules, it says so right above the posting box. They can't really prevent anyone from doing that, but neither could any…
Re: Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
#10As a person who lived through Gamergate, my base assumption here is that the attacks Kiwifarms are alleged to have made are entirely fictional. This is something that I (and you) could possibly check if there was some kind of Archive of the Internet, but apparently that evidence was just destroyed for reasons which are not suspicious at all.
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