I think those who are arguing against it either don't know quite how extreme KiwiFarms is, or strongly agree with the hatred, doxing and SWATting of minorities and vulnerable people that their members do.
Yes, I believe there are laws that are unjustly applied, but this is a) not a law and b) so obviously different from any sort of edge case. The only people who think kiwifarms should exist are sociopaths.
I read it that way too at first but it makes no sense in light of your OP.
Which makes them a prime target for extremist thinking/alt-right groups.
The alt-right playbook series goes into this rather well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g (video has content warning, ironically).
The problem with real witch hunts was that witches don't exist. By definition, any "witches" found and punished was an injustice.
That's not the case here. Kiwifarms users have committed acts that have drawn public attention, criticism, and consequences like today's.
It's one of the most awful places I've ever seen on the internet, and I have zero respect for the people who try to launder large-scale harassment into "it's just free speech!"
Swatting is illegal on the site, harassing too, in fact it's against the rules to really try to interact with anyone at all. And they target everyone and anyone who publicly says or does stupid stuff regularly. Don't feel to bad, most people tend to easily fall for misinformation like this.
I have looked at the site and it's doesn't seem that extreme, unless there's a bunch of content not visible to guests. It looks like any anonymous IB from the early 2000s. The people who are calling it "extreme" seem to mostly be trusting other people's descriptions of the site.
> SWATting of minorities
As far as I can tell, the only people verifiably being swatted are KF site operators. I have yet to see a case of swatting with compelling evidence of attribution to KF.
That's pretty extreme no?