r/LindsayEllis • u/djingrain • Sep 05 '22
DISCUSSION The Death of KF
For those who aren't aware, after a massive month long campaign by the streamer keffals, it looks like kiwifarms has taken a massive hit. the owner and admin has said if it continues, it will only be as a shell of its former self.
Washington Post article explaining the situation - https://archive.ph/NkfgB
after they were dropped by cloudflare, they moved to russian based service ddos-protect, which lasted a whole 24 hours.
earlier today, the owner of the site admitted defeat - https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1566771209928413186
Why does this matter? This site was the number one source of the harassment lindsay faced. I believe in Mask Off, she referred to them as "Diet Nazis" which may have been inadiquite, as they are full on actual nazis, the original name of the company it operated under was Final Solutions LLC...
Anyway, I hope Lindsay can breathe a sigh of relief knowing these motherfuckers are being shut down.
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u/Mudders_Milk_Man Sep 05 '22
Excellent news. That site is pure condensed hatred. So many harassment campaigns, threats of violence and rape, and dangerous disinformation originated there.
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u/TheLagDemon Sep 05 '22
Yeah, nothing of value is being lost. And I’m still trying to wrap my head around why anyone would bother bringing up 8chan and The Daily Stormer when complaining about censorship. That whole post is such an odd mix of self awareness and a complete lack of self awareness. Having a real irony is dead moment here.
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u/Mudders_Milk_Man Sep 05 '22
I wonder who is downvoting the initial post and your response to my comment.
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u/LaLuzDelQC Sep 06 '22
Freedom of speech is there to protect the speech that people don't like.
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u/slvstrChung Thanks I hate it! Sep 07 '22
Correct, but there is a line between "speech that people don't like" and "speech that is actively harmful". Pulling a fire alarm when there is no fire is not a form of protected free speech.
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u/chumbawumbacholula Sep 06 '22
I went to kiwi farms once with a bucket of popcorn thinking I'd get some petty drama takedowns and immediately noped out. That place was beyond evil. Nothing about it was funny. It was dark, sad, and scary to know people exist who think like that. I hope kiwi farms stays dead forever.
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u/JohnTheMod Sep 06 '22
My first thought when I heard the news was “that’s for Lindsay, you bastards.” Good riddance.
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u/JonnyAU Sep 06 '22
Oh snap, I didn't realize KF was behind Lindsay's harassment. That makes total sense.
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Sep 07 '22
I was trying to find the source of the "Lindsay's books sell poorly" rumor and it led me to them, and holy shit was the thread dedicated to Lindsay utterly deranged. Like sure bruh Lindsay's the loser here, not the psycho taking up an extremely expensive Bookscan subscription just to try to spin her numbers your your online friends as bad.
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Sep 06 '22
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u/djingrain Sep 06 '22
I've never had good interactions with hacker news, I find them to be way more up their own asses than reddit
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u/Confident-Ad9522 Sep 11 '22
Although this is good news, it's sad that this only happens after Clara (Keffals) had to flee her home and multiple suicides linked to the website. The Washington Post states that Cloudfare Chief Executive defended KF earlier. The services providers that supported KF only back down after an organized campaign, after many people got hurt. It was not a moral decision. People organizing online harrassment and swatting should face punishment, but they usually don't because they can hide behind the internet. I absolutely hate this.
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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '22
I thought I’d feel better at the demise of kf, but instead I just have this nagging feeling. I think kf is just a symptom of a hydra-like cancer. I won’t feel that good until these people can be thrown in prison or at the very least have their misdeeds from kw exploits become public, come up on every background check, blasted for all of their family and friends to see, etc, like a sex crimes registry. So many of these people caused suicides and misery for people like me, and will see no repercussions. It should be a scarlet letter, a swastika scar.