It is a KKK-level hate site against LGBT people and particularly trans women, that actively seeks to terrorize them by doxxing them and their family members. Several suicides have been attributed directly to their actions, as well as the Christchurch massacre.

The Christchurch massacre wasn't initiated by a KF user or initially streamed there. That happened on Facebook.

KF "only" archived and reposted the video and manifesto by the Christchurch terrorist. This is illegal in New Zealand and the police asked KF to release the data of all NZ users commenting on the video, which JM refused to do since it's an overreach and they legally run under an US entity thus don't have to comply. That didn't go well with the NZ law enforcement and got them delisted from there.

This is why people associate KF with Christchurch, however the terrorism act itself was not initiated by a KF user and anyone saying so is spreading fake news.

> KF "only" archived and reposted the video and manifesto by the Christchurch terrorist.

oh yeah, then they're totally fine...

Not even just the NZ users who were posting about it. They wanted the IPs and data of everyone who participated in the thread. I think maybe everyone on the site?

>Several suicides have been attributed directly to their actions, as well as the Christchurch massacre.

Saying something that is demonstrably false like this only makes the argument against them look worse. It has the opposite effect you're going for.

Unfortunately people won't be bothered to check that the suicides are not cased by kiwifarms, they will just go with it and there are plenty of people to just repeat the lie until it becomes the truth.

it used to just be a forum for lolcow obsessions

I Google'd it and found this, hope it helps! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

worst source possible :D

A website that bullies, ridicules and publishes private information of people they do not like, and then pretends they're not culpable when awful things (suicides, swattings) happen as a result because they technically really aren't responsible for them. Not that they don't usually celebrate when it happens.

A trans twitch personality was swatted a while ago and fought back by informing everyone involved with keeping the site alive. They have been dropped by about 99% of the ISPs they've been with (including before that campaign, but now also by Cloudflare).

Self-described as "community dedicated to discussing eccentric people who voluntarily make fools of themselves."

kf is the most accessible and moderated forum for gossip of internet personalities (mostly negative in the same way traditional gossip magazines are typically negative)

they have a particularly strong long-running beef with the transgender community, over being the only place where documentation can be reliably found on questionable activities such as shipping hormone replacement drugs to minors, which influential members of that community seem to defend