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So does Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and every large platform. There is so much harassment, doxing, and other disturbing behavior on all the platforms.

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This is a remarkably facile comment; on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram you can find people who aren't out to drive trans people to commit suicide, and content which isn't about how to best call SWAT teams to people's homes. On KiwiFarms, that is all there is.

I see plenty of posts on Kiwifarms that don't seem to be advocating for anything like that. Where exactly are all these posts? If the only thing on Kiwifarms are posts like this I should be able to easily see them.

And each of those platforms you've mentioned have explicit rules AGAINST harassment, doxxing, swatting, and other reprehensible behavior KF engages in.

Sure, it may be posted, but lots of it is removed as soon as it is identified and/or reported.

Kiwifarms has a policy against illegal behavior (which would include some harassment and swatting). I am not sure if doxing is illegal?

Policies don't mean anything when a huge amount of it stays up and the platform does nothing about it.

There are posts literally and explicitly calling for people to murder others on Twitter. The posts have been there for multiple years (at least the last time I checked). Twitter and the other big players completely fail at content moderation.

> Kiwifarms has a policy against illegal behavior

wink wink

Is that supposed to be Twitter winking at Kiwifarms because they do the same thing?

The owners of those platforms don't actively encourage that content, and it makes up a small portion of the content rather than the main purpose

I'm not sure that it is the main purpose of KiwiFarms. There appears to be a large number of posts not related to any of that behavior. I don't use KiwiFarms so maybe I just don't know where all these doxing posts are?

Also, due to the sheer size, Twitter and the others almost certainly have significantly more of these types of posts.

Twitter and Meta have policies against doxing. Difficulty preventing it at much larger scale does not make them equivalent to Kiwi Farms.

I don't care if they have policies. They have a huge amount of posts directly advocating violence and doxing that don't get removed.

> Difficulty preventing it at much larger scale does not make them equivalent to Kiwi Farms.

KiwiFarms has a policy against illegal behavior. If your argument is that having a policy and half assing it is sufficient for Twitter then you should be consistent and allow KiwiFarms the same excuse. The size is irrelevant. If anything it should mean Twitter should be held to a higher standard due to the sheer reach of the platform. Twitter has significantly more resources to stop this behavior through both automated and manual processes. Stop justifying Twitter's complete and utter failure.

KiwiFarms doesn't half-ass, they ignore. They need to try before they can be excused for trying.

Then it should be easy to find examples. And as you can't prove a negative, the burden of proof is on those claiming such posts to exist.

KiwiFarms has removed posts that were doxing people in the past. I am not sure how frequently they do it though, but since they do it sometimes 'half-assing' seems appropriate.

All of those platforms regularly remove that type of content and ban users that post it.

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