Kiwifarms just got dropped from their new DDOS protection

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    [–][deleted] 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    Yeah, Kiwi Farms goes way way the fuck past the first amendment. It's essentially on online site for a gang to plot, scheme and terrorize whoever they don't like

    Do you have any evidence of that? It's the kind of thing I keep hearing about, but haven't actually seen browsing KF. There's doxxing on both sides of the fight. The bomb threat looks staged as hell though: https://i.imgur.com/ChzaT89.jpg. Their site like ours forbids anything against US law.

    This seems like the sort of underhanded stuff AHS does to kill subs they don't like, and the real issue is a rather scummy trans person flexing their online muscles to silence their detractors.

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      [–]LyingSpirit472 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      That might slow down the whole online harassment thing a SMIDGE. Realistically though, there's an epic fuckton of basement dwellers doing this shit for kicks.

      Honestly, that's why this won't matter in the least. If KF goes down, it won't stop online harassment as much as it'll etch into law "online harassment is okay as long as you're on OUR SIDE". Do not forget the "Right Side Of History[tm]" has basement dwellers who love using online harassment as a weapon too, and they're emboldened to do it to anyone they don't like/who don't bow down to them...and they're GETTING TO WIN.

      [–]Datachost 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      People need to realise the precedent they're setting here. Creating an environment where "the right side" gets to determine acceptable speech or behaviour absolutely will be used against you once the sides switch. If you let if be known that public utility providers (because let's face it that's what ISPs effectively are) or social media sites are all cowards who'll bow under the pressure of popular opinion, you don't get to complain when popular opinion changes and you suddenly find yourself unable to say or do shit.