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by richbell 3y ago
I have highlighted numerous security flaws in my organization — e.g., forced password changes every 60 days, resulting in many employees using simple passwords — which I've been told were the result of certifications or regulations. It
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I guess it's nice that employees of the company felt so confident in their product's safety that they're willing to get tased? Or it would have been if they'd done so voluntarily.
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Sorry, dang. Sometimes the undertow pulls you in.
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> A lot of the "people here" are from Kiwifarms because this thread got linked to from their site. So a lot of untrue claims are being made about the facts of the situation. I went looking for this out of curiosity. It seems to
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by richbell 3y ago
> A lot of the "people here" are from Kiwifarms because this thread got linked to from their site. So a lot of untrue claims are being made about the facts of the situation. I went looking for this out of curiosity. It seems to
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by richbell 3y ago
> go on kf and click a few, there's a ton on there. or just look at their _entire forum_ about a trans-woman named christine chandler, in which they document not only her address, but even have photos of her at walmart, game stores,
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> Presence of citations has near zero meaning in terms of goals of the writing or bias. These are so clearly opinion pieces. Completely dismissing the content because you believe it must be biased is somewhat ironic. Would you at least t
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> I would have to disagree with the characterization of two opinion blog posts from relatively unknown authors as “unbiased sources.” The first link is from Destiny, a well-known (albeit controversial) online figure. It seems to be a fac
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> You know full well the series of companies Kiwifarms has gone through, because you are an obvious Kiwifarms user astroturfing this thread. I won't waste time on your bad faith questions. I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of
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by richbell 3y ago
> I could say the same thing about the thousands of malware and phish websites that are taken down every day. Malware and phishing are illegal.
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> Mostly because they tend to pick on people who can only file pro se, not because of any inherent merit. This is demonstrably false. Kiwi Farms has thousands of threads on people ranging from Elon Musk to random Internet streamers. At l
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by richbell 3y ago
> Kiwifarms makes shell companies Can you provide examples of shell companies they've used? As far as I'm aware, Kiwi Farms only had a single LLC which is based in the US.
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> The owner shed his Section 230 protections when he made posts directly involved in harassment of his victims that he has a personal beef with. That's an interesting legal theory. > Even the EFF's article says the site is f
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> No, they don't. They pick on people and pretend it's justice. You're upset that Kiwi Farms picks on people that produces animal abuse imagery? Or are you saying "they don't do that at all"? The latter is e
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> People "ought to love" crude vigilantism? I believe I said "you" and not "people". I'm not sure I would call documenting something online "crude vigilatiasm", but maybe that's just me.
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> You cannot be seriously asking this. I am. The fact you refused to answer any of the questions and threw generic definitions at me kinda proves my point. Is any unwanted attention stalking? Is a journalist stalking someone if they go t
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> Sure. And the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic because it says so in the name. > I've personally seen the doxxing threads before and throughout the entire Keffals drama that got KF banned from so many pl
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> There are a huge number of different people who have independently arrived at the conclusion that KF exists to bully queer and autistic people, often to suicide, because it's a consistent pattern It's a convenient thing to ac
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> As someone who doesn't frequent these places, I will concede that you may be right, but the point has sailed over your head and into outer space. I disagree. The entire impetus behind getting Kiwi Farms removed from Cloudflare, h
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> I have no idea who Keffals is or why you'd think I'd care. Keffals is one of the people responsible for the chain of events leading to what is happening. If you aren't familiar with the context and don't care to lea
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> The site is literally about stalking people and documenting their personal lives for the sake of mockery. You're half right, though I'd disagree with literally stalking — at the very least, there's variety and nuance.
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Of course it's possible , though without evidence it's baseless speculation. I'm pretty sure the Kiwi Farms is protected by section 230, so unless the owner was personally involved in these threats to life (which I doubt) wh
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> KF is public and has a rule against harassing Internet users until they commit suicide You're putting words into my mouth. Kiwi Farms has rules against harassment and bans anyone who does. There is a long history of communities or
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> Ironically, appealing to authority to enforce an internet service provider to provide speech they don't want to transmit seems like an imposition on a private entity operating freely. Look up "net neutrality" and "c
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Matthew Prince received a massive backlash for this decision and he hasn't once been able to elaborate on what evidence they had. As mentioned, I believe it was merely a convenient excuse to justify backtracking on his definitive promi
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by richbell 3y ago
I'm not sure how to make my point clearer. I guess GOTO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37316464
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by richbell 3y ago
> I'm all for freedom of speech, but forums dedicated to driving people to commit suicide go far beyond that. The claim that Kiwi Farms is a forum "dedicated to driving people to suicide" is patently false. It is rhetoric
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by richbell 3y ago
> Fortunately US Code doesn't require violence for cyberbullying to be a crime. This is conflating two parts of my message. You cited CloudFlare's blog post as an example how it's "pretty clear" that Kiwi Farms b
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by richbell 3y ago
> Yeah, sheesh. KF is a website that gleefully reposts terrorist murder videos treated with the same legal penalties as CSAM in other countries, and during the reign of ISIS and the Taliban I don't recall people sitting around defen
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Animal torture videos

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