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There are many more obvious reasons why someone might want to seize an archive domain without needing to delve into ridiculous gamer gate conspiracy theories.

• bitwize 8y ago
  The best information about Zoe Quinn is on Kiwi Farms, where the posters tend not to take sides in GG -- and they use archive.is extensively. It doesn't have to be Zoe specifically -- KF is full of profiles on people who would really rather not have their public internet activity preserved because it's so damning. Stealing the domain wouldn't make the content go away, but it would invalidate all the links which have been already posted.
  • cazum 8y ago
    A single line unix command run on KiwiFarm's servers could replace every instance of "archive.is" with "archive.today" in posts. Nobody is going to attempt a high profile take over like this for something that can be circumvented in minutes by a half-asleep sysadmin. Also, for anyone not aware KiwiFarms is a notoriously shitty forum that publically stalk, dox, slander and harass people online. If you need evidence, just go read the forum post and kf wiki page about her. They repeatedly make unsourced claims, insults, editorial opinions about her motives, wild speculations and just outright lies. At one point the wiki diagnoses her with BPD without evidence. The title on the forum post about her calls her a "Cunt". She's constantly called a con artist without evidence, and is repeatedly accused of somehow forcing bored white teenage boys to harass her for years by "baiting her own harassment" At best, it's unjournalistic garbage and at worst it's actual gang stalking. I don't know you personally, bitwize, but I know you're better than this trash.