Kiwi Farms is an Internet bulletin board specializing in harassment that uses doxxing , online stalking, and even offline harassment to drive multiple victims to suicide. Mother Jones, a non-profit investigative reporting organization, has compiled the details of how Kiwi Farms was born and the slander it has committed against victims.
The Website That Wants You to Kill Yourself—and Won't Die – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/kiwi-farms-die-drop-cloudflare-chandler-trolls/
At Kiwi Farms , the suicide of a targeted person is called a "kill count", and at least three people have been killed so far. The first confirmed victimis 19-year-old Julie Terryberry, who committed suicide in 2016 after Kiwi Farms exposed her private photos. Two years later, indie game developer Chloe Sagal died after setting herself on fire in a Polish park after being harassed by Kiwi Farms.
Furthermore, in June 2021, David Ginder, also known as Near, a game emulator developer living in Japan, lost his life due to Kiwi Farms' harassment campaign. ``I have been bullied, ridiculed, and humiliated for a long time.On 4chan, I only suffered from severe depression, but the harassment at Kiwi Farms is on an order of magnitude,'' he wrote in a suicide note posted online. It is said that Kiwi Farms users were pleased with Mr. Taginder and said, ``Kiwi's kill count will be increased by 1.''
When Kiwi Farms is covered by the press, it tends to be introduced as a "far-right forum," but this is an incomplete explanation. Because while Kiwi Farms members love people like former President Donald Trump and far-right white supremacist activist Nick Fuentes, they also hate them because they're "cringe. "
Kiwi Farms targets " lolcows ", including transgender Twitch streamers, troubled teenagers, and far-right MP Marjorie Taylor, a well-known conspiracy theorist.・Mr. Green and others are often the subject of ridicule. In this way, Kiwi Farms users target women, people of color, people with neurological disabilities, and sexual minorities not only for political reasons, but also because they are soft targets, meaning they are vulnerable and easy targets. Mother Jones pointed out that it's because they need it.
Kiwi Farms began to attract a lot of attention due to a series of reports in August 2022 when Clara Sorrenti, a Twitch streamer and transgender activist known as Keffals, became a target of Kiwi Farms . Sorrenti, who was forced to leave Canada after being swatted by Kiwi Farms, used his strengths of around 150,000 followers on Twitter and more than 50,000 viewers on Twitch to create the # We are running a campaign called ``DropKiwiFarms.''
She requested that Cloudflare, which provided security services to Kiwi Farms, discontinue its services to Kiwi Farms. Cloudflare then announced on September 4th that it had blocked Kiwi Farms, fearing that the conflict could end up costing lives . Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stressed that the pressure campaign against the company was not the reason for the block, but Sorrenti declared victory: "We won. Kiwi Farms is dead . " Cloudflare blocks harassment-specific bulletin board ``Kiwi Farms'', considering that LGBT discrimination can lead to a danger to human lives - GIGAZINE
by Web Summit
Although Kiwi Farms went offline once, they are still active at the time of writing this article by seeking ways to revive it by using Tor and Russian services, and later securing another service provider. .
The manager who supports Kiwi Farms is Mr. Joshua Moon. Moon, who goes by the username "Null" on the site, lives with his mother in Pensacol, Florida.
Mr. Moon became famous in 2007 when an online forum called Something Awful talked about a person named Christian Weston Chandler, who is transgender and autistic. Mr. Chandler's diary titled ``Love Quest'' and a less-than-flattering illustration of an original character called `` Sonichu ,'' a combination of Pikachu and Sonic, were the subject of ridicule from Mr. Moon and other Something Awful users. It was made.
A group including Mr. Moon, who played a central role in the bashing of Mr. Chandler, established a site called CWCki (a play on Mr. Chandler's initials CWC and wiki) in 2008 to compile information and posts about Mr. Chandler. , which soon expanded to include people other than Chandler. In 2013, they founded CWCki Forums, which was renamed Kiwi Farms in 2014. The site's name, Kiwi Farms, is said to be a play on the pronunciation of the word "CWCki Forum" by the targeted speech-impaired people.
Mr. Moon and other Kiwi Farms users, who had solidified their base of operations in this way, established a method to corner the target "lolcow" while harassing Mr. Chandler thoroughly. For example, to gather information about Mr Chandler, Kiwi Farms users contacted Mr Chandler and people close to him, posing as journalists, former classmates of Mr Chandler, psychiatrists and others. We are trying to
Also, when Mr. Sorrenti mentioned above changed his address to avoid harassment, Kiwi Farms users immediately found his new location and harassed him by ordering delivery pizza under Mr. Sorrenti's dead name . Immediately after changing his location, Mr. Sorrenti uploaded a photo of the cat on the bed to SNS, but it seems that the sheets in this photo may have been a clue to identifying the hotel. Mr. Sorrenti spoke.
Kiwi Farms users who discover their targets will then attack them using doxxing, blackmail, contacting family members, hijacking social media accounts, and hacking mobile phone SIM cards in an attempt to force them out of work. This ultimately drives them to commit suicide by pushing them into a corner mentally and financially.
One Kiwi Farms user describes the ethos of the site: "If you post something stupid or embarrassing on the internet, it's on the internet forever and it's ours. And if you want to dig it up and have a laugh, that's what you do. If you worry about it, we will love you with all our hearts and you will become ours too. We may get tired of it eventually and stop, or we may play too hard and break it. Hmm. But we won't let go of it, and someday we'll remember it and take it out again. Now, why don't you make it ours?"
This article has been Google Translated from Japanese to English
Article Link (Original)
Article Link (Google Translated)
Archive
