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Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive. The archives of all the threads of people made on Kiwi Farms are gone.

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Wait a minute, what? I don't even know what this KiwiFarms story is about, but it seems like within a week the entire site was erased, deplatformed, de-personed and even removed from the internet archive?! Is anyone else concerned with the amount of power being wielded here?

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Purging something from the internet archive is the most concerning part of this story. Good, bad or anywhere in between, the internet archive is an archive of what has been on the internet. Nobody should have the ability to editorialize a historical archive

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it's not about "good" or "bad" the material on that site was actively harmful. archives should only exist to reflect on the past for the betterment of the future, and not to hold illegally published personal information that has been used to kill people.

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I’d normally agree but KF was housing an extreme amount of doxxing info about people - a hell of a lot of trans people in particular. It was extremely dangerous to just be out there and available, even via internet archive

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Maybe educate yourself a bit on the topic before making such an inane observation? Just a thought.

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A bunch of edgelords sent death threats to Keffals and as a result all of it is gone. They’ll just migrate to 4chan though.

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no lmao

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Lol “I don’t know what this story is about but I’m sure that the info they had on the people they were harassing should be archived.”

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The power of the collective internet? I’d be scared if the voice of so many that are suffering thanks to KF was ignored and it stayed up

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Normally I’d agree that completely removing a site is concerning. but KF was pretty much exclusively used to profile, compile personal info, and poke at people. Sure some targets were genuinely bad and but many others were just because they were prey for bullying.

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@pandorastweetz

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because pedophiles are scared of being exposed

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Maybe this guy is hidding something too. Thats why he’s worry.

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"I have no idea what this is about (and freely admit it) but I'm going to have some opinions about it!"

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Honestly. Talk about entitlement and projecting

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not in the slightest. their doxing put many people in danger and keeping it available risks violence

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Not concerned at all, but only because I know what KiwiFarms is. If this was a normal site, then I would be concerned.

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Only insomuch as any record of potentially illegal or red-flag worthy posting is now gone too.

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Pretty sure they have back ups that can be given to proper government agencies if needed but not given out to the general public due to a person’s personal data or info being on there.

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It was not "within a week." People have been fighting that site for a decade, and they KF had already burned bridges with a lot of hosts and services that had previously harbored out by being too toxic for them to be willing to deal with.

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In that time they have been frequently implicated in crime and even terrorism (the breaking point for this most recent push was when one of their users started posting about plans to set bombs around Belfast, which is to say *reigniting the fucking Troubles.*

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If you don’t know what this is about, maybe take a minute to learn the history before tweeting.

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Cope. We are taking your freedom of speech next buddy.

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you know there are chatlogs of her pursuing minors and KF was taken down cuz they published them

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Then why is your opinion relevant? Everyone has one and some even form an educated one before tweeting

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Literally was a harassment squad forum. So much so that it killed 3-4 people from the intense harassment of the illegal level. Even when fleeing the country.

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You're joking, right?

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They were complicit in the deaths of multiple people, Andrew

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Andrew doesn't care, he wants to stand on a post and make unreasonable demands that don't represent how society works in practice so he can call himself a free speech extremist This kind of person also often misuses the concept of freedom of speech

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say less

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You won't find child sexual abuse images on the way back machine, why should you find threads exposing and stalking common people?

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No. It was a doxxing website it never should of existed. That would be like posting a list on tv shaming those on it. Its illegal.

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Then come back when you know what you’re talking about. That site was a platform for destroying people and nothing else.

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The ability to tell when something is a good thing versus when it's a bad thing is pretty fundamental to being a grown-up. Get going on that, come back in 10 years.

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No. You may feel differently if you did know what the story was about, but regardless, this wasn't a single entity wielding power, it was many entities reviewing content and each deciding that they don't want to be associated with it.

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Just.. ugh.

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Very concerned!

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Not in the slightest

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Bro stalking and harassment???

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… you should read up on what a story is about before you comment, it will answer many of your questions!

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It's extremely concerning. It's not the first time this has happened, and each time it does the institutions running the internet fold to pressure faster

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the archive didn’t “fold to pressure” it removed dangerous and illegal material of people being doxxed in the same way child pornography is not held on the archive just to keep it from being “deplatformed”

kiwifarms has been going on for years but y’all don’t read

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