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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by vintermann on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:44PM (#32729205)
One who did not impress with critical thinking skills, was swatting victim (and notorious US right-wing politician) Marjorie Taylor Greene. The person phoning in false reports on them literally did this, as transparently as possible. Via KnowYourMeme:

> According to a police report obtained by the Daily Dot, a caller tipped the police to inform them that a man had been shot five times in a bathtub in Greene's home. Police arrived at Greene's home and confirmed no such incident had occurred. The tipper then called the police department again and, using a computer-generated voice, explained the motive for their false tip was their opposition to Greene's stances on transgender youth's rights. They also stated they were a Kiwi Farms user and said their username was AltisticRight, an admin on the site.

And Marjorie Taylor Greene actually believed that the tipper told the truth and supported the deplatforming of the site. So much for the "politically incorrect" being any better on this sort of thing.

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by grzm on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:57PM (#32729373)
> MTG is a boomer

Are you using this as a pejorative or as a descriptor? If the latter, what's your definition of "boomer"? She was born in 1974.

Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by Cyberdog on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:39PM (#32730338)
"Boomer" is internet slang for a (usually, but not necessarily, older) person with little awareness of the internet and its culture. It doesn't have any strong connection to proper baby boomers. The opposite would be a "zoomer" - a young person who is unaware of older internet culture or perhaps just culture in general. A Facebook person who doesn't know what Fortnite is would be a boomer; a TikTok kid who doesn't know what the dancing baby meme is or who Michael Jackson is would be a zoomer.
Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by grzm on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:43PM (#32730366)
So, the former.