Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive

Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive by mazdayasna on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:27PM (#32746031)

Thanks for spreading this some more. Funny enough, I got that link from reading an archived version of Keffals' thread on KF while trying to get a bead on the situation myself. At best, KF threads are a simple public record of a person's online presence, (that they themselves posted publicly initially) content which I believe should absolutely be online. At worst, the popularity of threads about trans/autistic people on KF amounts to an incentive to provoke the "lolcow" into providing more "milk", which I would say is definitely a form of harassment.

Perhaps this will lead to a successor site with a similar "mission" that consists only of what would be a thread OP on KF, without the thousands of pages that follow wherein people say the n-word as many times as they can.

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Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive by dmix on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:37AM (#32750415)

There’s no way there won’t be another site of the terminally online obsessively documenting the terminally online.

There is clearly massive demand for content about people like Chris Chan and Keffals, and these people have a way of constantly generating new controversy and attention (this obviously doesn’t justify harassment or IRL threats). If the drug war taught us anything it’s that demand can’t be squashed by playing wack-a-mole and then putting your fingers in your ears until it pops back up again next week.

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Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive by richbell on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:51AM (#32750619)

There are already dozens of sites like this today. Many are uncreatively named offshoots of Kiwi Farms.

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Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive by sunsetMurk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:39PM (#32758820)

have any links?

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