> Do you believe investigative journalism has a place in our society?

Yes and KiwiFarms is not investigative journalism - they're harrassing and doxxing private individuals with clearly personal malicious intent. The key part of investigative journalism is the "investigative", which there is no evidence of on KiwiFarm's part. No attempts to hold power to account, to expose serious breaches of power - just a horrid, all-consuming hatred and failure to respect other people's right to exist.

For _actual_ investigative journalism, see https://www.icij.org/

Do you think CNN should be driven off the internet? Back in 2017 they threatened and harassed an anonymous reddit user into apologizing for making a harmless gif [1]. How is CNN better than kiwifarms?

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-use...

If you believed that KF was performing "investigative journalism", you wouldn't be posting this with a throwaway.

If people really believed that doxxing was harmless, they'd be posting under their real names and addresses.

Except using an alias online is a large part of internet culture. There are also a lot of people that do use their real names online.

I’m not telling strangers, in-person or online, my address.

And that would make sense when it comes to people like you or others with aliases, but an alias like "wyre" or "pc" aren't exactly hiding themselves, just using a nickname, similarly to how in high school my peers called me Seneca (because my first day I wore my old school's t-shirt). I wasn't hiding who I am by going by that, just not using my real name.

But "throwawayacc2" doesn't get that same meaning.

You are exactly the kind of person that makes me use names like this.

Ideas need no name. Argue the idea, not the human behind it.

Or failing that, perhaps consider relocating to China or Russia. You will find their attitudes to internet anonymity more to your liking.

So you are afraid of people doing to you what you do to others. Incredible levels of hypocrisy and cowardice you've achieved here - congrats!

It's not your pro-anonymity attitude they were criticizing. Try again.

> I’m not telling strangers, in-person or online, my address.

But what if there was a website that told strangers your address associated with your handle?

Perhaps political dissidents in the USSR should have been more open with their criticisms as well :)

"throwawayacc2" is an account well over a year old with 400+ karma. His name does not appear to be correlated with his actual account activity.

Imagine thinking this drivel somehow applied to this thread.

You shouldn't make new accounts for this sort of thing you know - cowards who hide from perfectly legal doxxing and "investigative journalism" in defense of such "harmless" actions come across as sus. Why should you be ashamed of your opinion - you are entitled to free speech right?

It’s actually relevant since it’s one of the only sites on the web where you can express an opinion like that and not be removed