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"I’m going to do the thing that every so often I feel the need to do: discuss a
topic that is complicated and requires nuanced thinking, but where many people
have strong opinions that leave little room for nuance or discussion. As I’ve
been known to do when I write these posts, I ask, politely, that you to try to
read the whole piece and consider it before resorting to the immediate
response.
Here’s something, however, that’s not nuanced, and fairly straightforward:
Kiwi Farms is awful.
Also, people want Kiwi Farms to be shut down. Whatever it takes.
If you don’t know what Kiwi Farms is, it’s an online forum that is basically
the definition of “the forum for the worst, most maladjusted, horrible, awful
people in the world.” Kiwi Farms has basically no redeeming qualities, and that
includes the fact that many of its users gleefully embrace the doxxing and
harassing of people it doesn’t like — sometimes up to and including swatting.
The people who like Kiwi Farms push back on this and insist that they just like
crass and norm-breaking humor. But the fact remains that, on the whole, it’s a
forum for punching down on the marginalized, where people gleefully try to make
others’ lives miserable, with a special focus on attacking the trans community.
To many of the people who wanted Kiwi Farms shut down, there was a simple
solution: Cloudflare should stop providing its anti-DDoS protections to the
site, which would almost certainly lead to the site going down.
It’s a simple solution. Except that it isn’t quite that simple."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
