Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive

Re:Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive by Normille on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:52AM (#32762113)

  >I'd not heard of Kiwi Farms before this whole censorship attempt...

Me neither. When I started seeing the name on HN, I honestly thought it was literally a kiwi farming website [Do they even farm kiwis in NZ].

Like you, I at also took a look to see what the fuss was about. But, judging by the titles of the various discussion threads, it just looked like a collection of moronic drivel. So I didn't bother reading anything.

Still, that's at least two of us who'd never even have heard of the site, much less visited it, of it wasn't being censored.

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Re:Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive by alanweber22 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:28AM (#32766061)

There's definitely going to be a Streisand effect from all this. I hadn't heard about KF until a couple months ago too when an Asahi developer I follow was complaining about them on twitter. Now just about the entire tech community knows of them.

I have zero interest in participating with their content, but sent KF a crypto donation to help support forums with less censorship. I'm sure they'll be getting a nice bump in funding from all this.

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Re:Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive by dark-star on Thursday September 08, 2022 @01:12PM (#32768513)

Yeah, it was some strange content but definitely nothing criminal, and especially nothing warranting purging the forum from everywhere.

It looks more like some personal vendetta that this "keffels" person had against them.

4chan had much worse content, yet even they were not entirely purged from the internet...

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