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Comment by cowtools | Hacker News Reader

most recently, they executed a targeted intimidation campaign to the point where somebody felt the need to flee Canada. and then continued it when kiwifarms users discovered that person's new home in ireland.

(edit: corrected US to canada. most of the coverage of this was coming from NBC, assumed that meant the victim was american)

It might help the "victim" if they weren't constantly posting online and leaking their whereabouts. But hey, how else would they be able to solicit donations?

When I grew up, people used to say that you should never post your personal details online. I think we should normalize that attitude again.

It really makes me wonder why they decided to go with a DDoS attack as opposed to counter-doxxing the operator of KiwiFarm, who also seems to be a donation-soliciting public nuisance and "internet celebrity".

kiwifarms users identified the victim's locations by identifying her hotel from a picture she posted that included a small portion of the bedsheets in the hotel she was hiding in after they intimidated her out of her own home.

in what ridiculous world does that count as "posting your personal details online"?

If you are trying to hide from internet stalkers, why would you publicly post a picture of your hotel? As a society, I feel like we have normalized oversharing to the extent that young people don't have regard for their own personal safety.

In any case, I think this young woman should stay strapped if there are people coming to her house.

Evidently in the ridiculous world we’re currently inhabiting.

That being the case, we should probably do a better job of educating people on just how much signal there is in even innocuous seeming information.

Even if I'm teaching my children to not publish too much online your comment sounds exactly like "If she weren't wearing that miniskirt she would not have problems going outside, she should dress modestly and then no one would harass her"

Coordinating real world afk harassment and physical attacks.

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/2022-alleged-kiwi-...

Yes, the devil is in the details like always.

Well it seems to me like the kiwifarm posts demeaning information about this person who is co-ordinating the DDoS, like that they were a pornstar or something. So this campaign seems like a tactic to shut down the discussion of facts that are inconvenient for their reputation, like a SLAPP suit.

I knew someone that kiwifarms had a big hand in driving to commit suicide.

I don't want to really get into the details, but we should push places like kiwifarms to the corners of the internet, and then keep pushing.

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