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> Yeah, even though I'd agree that KF is detestable I am very curious about this tbh. Has anyone here gone to that site? I read that they just report publicly

> Yeah, even though I'd agree that KF is detestable I am very curious about this tbh. Has anyone here gone to that site? I read that they just report publicly available info that people have voluenteered online. While I understand that doxxing is terrible and so is targeted harassment, are they that much worse than the daily mail or any other gossip magazine?

ever1337 4y ago
the difference between KF and a tabloid is that KF members go out of their way to interfere in their targets' lives
- smoldesu 4y ago
  The larger difference is that KiwiFarms members don't get paid for what they do. That being said, you can be disgusted by something while still accepting it as a valid form of self-expression. Real-life crimes deserve prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, but people being mean online is a shitty justification for deciding to void an entire website. It's entirely Cloudflare's choice to make, but it's value as a virtue signal is vastly outweighed by how many CF customers are wringing their hands now.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
  Anyone that brags about harrassing people gets banned immediately.
- HereIGoAgain 4y ago
  No, they actually don't. That is against the rules to even talk about. You're thinking about /b/ or something from back in the day, or the people attacking the site.
Faark 4y ago
Not an expert, only checked a few threads shortly before its very end. From what i can tell... - gossip magazines usually target "public figures". many jurisdictions have relaxed privacy rules around those. KF targeted whom they found... "interesting" - haven't really read gossip magazines, but i assume they have a higher bar. for example, did any of those print the hunter biden dick pics requested to be deleted in the "twitter files"? cause you could be sure of them to have been on KF, if they had thread on him - "publicly available info" is stretching it quite a bit. In the case of @elonjet, we that is info required by law/court to be public. KF, on the other side, is more like "stuff that was ever published somewhere" (as opposed to getting new stuff), so again your nudes are fair game for them, no matter any distribution rights

ever1337 4y ago

the difference between KF and a tabloid is that KF members go out of their way to interfere in their targets' lives

smoldesu 4y ago
The larger difference is that KiwiFarms members don't get paid for what they do. That being said, you can be disgusted by something while still accepting it as a valid form of self-expression. Real-life crimes deserve prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, but people being mean online is a shitty justification for deciding to void an entire website. It's entirely Cloudflare's choice to make, but it's value as a virtue signal is vastly outweighed by how many CF customers are wringing their hands now.
ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
Anyone that brags about harrassing people gets banned immediately.
HereIGoAgain 4y ago
No, they actually don't. That is against the rules to even talk about. You're thinking about /b/ or something from back in the day, or the people attacking the site.

Faark 4y ago

Not an expert, only checked a few threads shortly before its very end. From what i can tell... - gossip magazines usually target "public figures". many jurisdictions have relaxed privacy rules around those. KF targeted whom they found... "interesting" - haven't really read gossip magazines, but i assume they have a higher bar. for example, did any of those print the hunter biden dick pics requested to be deleted in the "twitter files"? cause you could be sure of them to have been on KF, if they had thread on him - "publicly available info" is stretching it quite a bit. In the case of @elonjet, we that is info required by law/court to be public. KF, on the other side, is more like "stuff that was ever published somewhere" (as opposed to getting new stuff), so again your nudes are fair game for them, no matter any distribution rights