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The problem is that, much like the alleged body count, they do nothing of the sort. See my post above.

They don't harass or even troll. It's literally one of the core rules of the site. Look (and laugh) but don't touch! If you ever try to organize something on-site, you'll get down-voted, your post deleted and potentially even banned. Attempting to swat isn't just not allowed on the site, but most members call out actual attempts as stupid, dangerous and evil!

Posting publicly available info and then pointing and laughing, is not stalking or harassment.

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> Harassment campaigns by Kiwi Farms users are known to have contributed to the suicides of three individuals.[9] The Kiwi Farms community considers it a goal to drive its targets to suicide, and has celebrated such deaths with a counter on the website.[11]: 55, 61 They have used social media reporting systems to mass-report posts by harassment targets in which they've expressed suicidal thoughts or intentions, with the goal of reducing the possibility their targets receive help.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Harassment

It's kind of funny that you talk about an "alleged body count" when the site literally put up an actual counter of the people whose suicide they encouraged.

Do you have source for that? The book in the Wikipedia article cites [0], [1] and [2] but i couldn't find anything related to suicide counter in them. Also I'm not exactly sure why Kiwi Farms gets _all_ the blame here. It's Facebook deleting the posts of people that need help because i guess it's against their guidelines.

[0]: https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/chloe-sagal-death-12028...

[1]: https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=308671

[2]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-...

I'm going on the article above. It alleges that crimes have been committed. If there is no crime that is great and they might have a reasonable claim to libel.

I guess my point is that any action against them should be for specific crimes committed by law enforcement. Not de-platforming by an angry mob. The nice thing about falling back on the justice system is you need to prove your claims. So if there is no crime here then there is no action required against Kiwi Farms. But if there is then there is a valid path to justice that doesn't involve the mob getting their way without any due process.

I get what you're saying now. Truly criminal actions should always be investigated and nobody should get favorites. It's funny how the people and media pushing these narratives here fail to mention the full logic of their arguments.. CF provides DDOS protection, they want KF to lose that protection so the DDOS attacks that are going on even now, take the site offline. That is literally the entire goal of this CF demand... To make the site susceptible to unquestionably illegal DDOS attacks which they know authorities don't and wouldn't lift a finger to stop/punish.

You also have to remember where those claims are coming from.. Vice isn't exactly the most unbias or trustworthy source. Just barely above clickbait in quality and more overtly political on these types of issues.

I mean we can look at what happened to Chloe Sagal to see what "look (and laugh) but don't touch" does to people.

Wait, you mean the person who got evicted from their house by the roommates (thrown out of the local trans community) and then killed themselves later that day? Also didn't they literally frame it as a protest of the current mental health system?

It seems very much like you've been reading fud from opportunistic people.. and from the sound of it some of the same people who threw Chloe under the bus the day it happened.

You must be confusing her with a different Chloe Sagal. I'm referring to the one who was stalked and harassed by Kiwi Farms users and when tried reaching out for help was consistently reported and locked down. The one who was the target of online bullying and the one who was mentioned in this Kiwi Farms quote “I do hope they blame us for literally murdering another t***n. Dibs on credit.”

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