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Re:Certified 100% AI-Free Organic content by icepat on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:15AM (#34505552)
The sorts of people being "documented" on KiwiFarms are not celebrities. They're usually vulnerable people with some sort of mental illness who are struggling. And I don't buy for a moment the "no touch" policy. Just because you can't use a specific website to harass someone, does not mean you can't use the information on the website to harass them off-platform. This is a bad take. There's a major difference between journalism, tabloid journalism (which I also consider worthless and wrong), and stalking vulnerable people on the internet. Or as you call the latter, "documenting".
Re:Certified 100% AI-Free Organic content by throwaway589275 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:27PM (#34506833)
> are not celebrities. They're usually vulnerable people with some sort of mental illness who are struggling

Like Baked Alaska (IRL Streamer and convicted Jan 6. participant), or Nick Fuentes (most prominent gen z white nationalist)? The people they cover are YouTubers and Twitch streamers with thousands or even millions of followers. Some of them are also multimillionaires. These are not struggling people. And besides documenting the more pedestrian cases of streamers grifting and sex-pesting, there is some truly bizarre social phenomena that you can't find documented elsewhere (or at least nowhere near to the extent), such as the million pity/trillion tears monkey hate stuff (which incidentally, YouTube and FB enable, and of which people like you seem unaware or unconcerned).

> And I don't buy for a moment the "no touch" policy

That's because you haven't spent much, if any, time on the site. Lurk more.

> Just because you can't use a specific website to harass someone, does not mean you can't use the information on the website to harass them off-platform. This is a bad take

If you really believed this nonsense, you'd be going after Discord, Signal, etc--apps which literally can be (and have been) used to coordinate harassment, and which will remain running irrespective of KF's fate.

Re:Certified 100% AI-Free Organic content by icepat on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:00PM (#34507342)
You do realize that KiwiFarms is named that because of Chris Chan, the person the website was set up to stalk, right?

See: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-...

> That's because you haven't spent much, if any, time on the site. Lurk more.

Zero interest. You don't have eat white lead to know it will give you cancer.

> there is some truly bizarre social phenomena that you can't find documented elsewhere

There's a word for this: stalking. Many of these "social phenomena" are people, and like I said, ones who suffer with mental illness. You're quite literally advocating for, and enabling real-world stalking when you endorse write-ups about these sorts of people.

> apps which literally can be (and have been) used to coordinate harassment

Used for, vs created to enable. There's a difference you're either ignoring or willfully blind to here.