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Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech

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Re: Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech

#101
>I no longer feel like I can speak up, for fear of illegal reprisals. Why should they be allowed to infringe on my rights? Why should I have to hide?

This is maliciously disingenuous assuming you know Keffals's background (which, unfortunately, 99.9% of people don't).

This was not just a trans content creator that randomly got into KF trolls' crosshairs. She's a toxic, manipulative liar tantamount to the KF trolls themselves, just from another angle. That's what fueled the drama to the point she got SWATed. What you saw was a tango which takes two.

That doesn't make what happened to her okay (although there's good reason to believe Keffals grossly exaggerated just about every detail), or the KF trolls any less horrible as actors on the Internet. Since no one's familiar with Keffals, though, it's unfortunate how distorted their view is on the situation.

One side-effect of that may be that regular people feel as though they're on the chopping block because armies of crazy trolls are going to target them just for being trans or whatever, and so people are more keen to aggressively police online discourse to preclude the formation of imaginary armies of crazy trolls. Which, ironically, is a situation that those regular people were trolled into by a crazy troll.

Re: Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech

#102
Twitter has a much larger "body count" than the farms. Where's the outrage and cancellation for them?

The real reason Keffals wanted the farms gone is because they exposed just what a truly awful and vile person they really are. Not because some keyboard warriors were making fun of them on one tiny corner of the internet. Also notice how they kept doing stupid stuff like posting pictures of their hotel room to get them re-doxxed as they moved around? It's clearly for attention. And none of the mainstream media has cared to shine any light on what the farms actually dug up and proved everything keffals has done. They still continue to call for others to be doxxed and swatted while crying foul for the same thing happening to them.

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