2023-01-13 - Ali Breland of Mother Jones: Reporting reaching out with some questions about KF for a story

[moocow]

Why journoscums are always like this nowadays? They're not even trying and somehow most people able to take their half-assed bullshits very seriously and simply accept it as a fact like it's a Wikipedia.

You answered your own question. They don't have to try very hard and people still believe their bullshit. It makes them feel powerful and important without having to do any actual work. They're venerated by John Q. Public (at least until he realizes they're full of shit) and that makes them feel like they're part of the "elite."

They're none of those things, of course (the establishment will cheerfully discard any of them at the drop of a hat the moment they step out of line even just a little). But to any of them who get paid to do this shit, it sure beats working for a living.

 

[No. 7 cat]

"Dear meany heads, please write a statement that legally implicates you in crimes so I can publish it and be the hero."

I hate journalists so much it's unreal.

Journo should an hero at least his career, if not...

 

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Derailing the thread for a second. I am not well versed into tech, but I can't help to notice how retro your browser is. I am retarded? Is this a style choice? Is there added value to using https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ ?

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

Users on Kiwi Farms describe themselves as “autists.” Why do you think that is?

Excuse me? Did this wealthy elite journalist just discriminate against us solely for our mental handicaps? It doesn't matter that he was quoting someone else. Hate speech is violence! This fucking bigot should be deplatformed immediately!!!

Anyways, jokes aside this might be the most blatantly targeted set of questions I've seen pop up here so far. I mean for fuck's sake, he should've just gone ahead and asked how many trannies Null was responsible for killing in 2022. The questions about Null's mother are especially vile. Go hang yourself for trying to drop tongue-and-cheek implicit threats at the man's mother just because he has a solid set of morals that don't align with yours, journofaggot.

ETA: @Illuminati Order Official, I can't quote your message but you did get one thing wrong (though I don't blame you given the loaded terms he uses to ask the question). He asks if the Farms has ever doxed people, which we have done and continue to do with shocking efficiency. However, we don't condone illegal methods such as hacking to get dox information, which is what I guarantee he was implying by lumping it in alongside illegal acts such as swatting and harassment. We just analyze things people have already put out on the internet with the intent to be public such as their social media posts and selfies. Don't want your info here? Don't post everything you do every single day to the internet, then, retards. Just another disingenuous attempt at painting us as evil super hacker cyber Nazis.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

Is this a style choice? Is there added value to using https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ ?

Spoiler: off-topic

A little Column A, a little Column B. I like the aesthetic of it. The fact that its UI barely changed since 2002 is absolute kino. But I also use e-mail and IRC a lot, so using a classic-style Browser Suite all-in-one package makes sense for me. Besides, the actual web-rendering engine is not all that old - it's from Firefox 60 (with all the security updates up to 102 ESR backported to it), which is enough to comfortably browse ~90% of the web. Also XUL support is nice I guess, but I'm waiting until they add WebExtensions support - this is their next planned major update.

I miss the weird accent where he'd say "erver" instead of "over."

Between changing how he pronounced that, and losing some weight, "The Erver-lard of Erver-eating" can't really be used anymore.

It is truly amazing how much he bettered himself because of people laughing it all up.
This right there is proof that bullying actually works.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

we will be celebrating our 10th Anniversary on February 3rd.

Need some celebratory swag for such a momentous occasion. New coin release?

 

[Johnny Salami]

Next time just reply with

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

He asks if the Farms has ever doxed people, which we have done and continue to do with shocking efficiency.

I mentioned "reposting publicly available information" which is what we do. Many of his question are just paraphrases of previous questions so I might've focused on the new elements and omitted the part that was answered previously.

 

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The saddest part is how they try and make it about journalism. Most likely, every other cunt who behaves the way they do get the same treatment. It's not a journalist thing. But because they have a Press card, they somehow think that they are above this and are excluded from the conflict.

Fuck these people. Nobody is going to come and save me if I do something dangerous to make money. Especially not if I decide to try and act all high and mighty in enemy territory. Fuck around, find out.

 

[Iron Hamster]

With the knowledge that Kiwi Farms has been blamed for harassing people to the point of suicide, why do you run the website?

I got to this ridiculous question and tapped out. 'People make up shit outside the website. Why do you run the website?''

I mentioned "reposting publicly available information" which is what we do. Many of his question are just paraphrases of previous questions so I might've focused on the new elements and omitted the part that was answered previously.

Yeah. They try to make doxing out to be like someone breaking into some private property and stealing the information.

 

[The NSA]

I wonder if Mr. Breland is this interested in the actual confirmed kill counts of Tiktok, Facebook, 4chan, and Craigslist vs KF’s unconfirmed “kill count”.

The reason there’s so much content about transgender people is that other sites suppress it. That shunts a disproportionate amount of trans conversation to Kiwifarms. If all but one grocery store in a county stops selling bread, that one grocery store will be swamped with people buying bread. Nah, fuck critical thinking, let’s just call the farmers Nazis.

It’s not going to be a hard hitting, well researched article. It’s a clickfarm hit piece to be consumed by people who’d rather feel smug than actually learn. And it’s four months too late, no one cares anymore.

 

[retard strength]

HAVE YOU NOW, OR EVER, BEEN A MEMBER OF THE SOMETHINGAWFUL FORUMS?

...

IS IT TRUE YOU WERE A MEMBER OF THE SONETHINGAWFUL FORUMS IN THE 2000s??

 

[Zilortha]

Throw the journos down the well, so my country can be free.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

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[Swole McPole]

Do you live with your mother?

While this soyboy journalist might not actually live with his mother, you know for certain that his parents have been paying his rent since college.

 

[Staticness]

I hope he is found guilty of homosexuality in an Islamic court.

 

[HahaYes]

I just about had a stroke reading through that faggots questions, jesus christ.

 

[mindlessobserver]

If you are going to write a hit piece at least make the questions vague. Even cops know to that to get someone to say something that hangs them they have to pretend to be the person's friend. And cops don't have college degrees.

 

[The Observer]

I can't believe I am still seeing people (Ali Berland) bringing back GG in 2020 in Destiny's semi-snide opinion article of him. Especially when using this narrative. This was in context of him debating right-wingers, but he was doing this before GG was a thing. "Gaming spaces have a reputation for incubating online right-wing culture, most famously exhibited by Gamergate, the sprawling reactionary harassment campaign that began by targeting women working in gaming." This is copy-paste the same fucking thing mainstream journalists claim; when in reality there is a lot more nuance to it. Was it retarded? Yes, but what was it started by, and you will get a different picture. Truly there is no point here. These questions serve no purpose. Even if Null were to answer them in the most charitable manner possible, at best Ali Berland would only use his answers in occasional weak responses with overwhelming criticisms against it. Like what the fuck is the point of being a journalist if you are uncritical of most shit? To think that people still consider this to be a noble profession is beyond me. Why should I go to your hack website if all the other shitsites MSNPC, BBC, CNN, VOX, NPR, Daily Dot, Huffington Post, etc are providing the same garbage? What justifies the existence of your website if you are going to provide the same thing?

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

"Gaming spaces have a reputation for incubating online right-wing culture, most famously exhibited by Gamergate, the sprawling reactionary harassment campaign that began by targeting women working in gaming." This is copy-paste the same fucking thing mainstream journalists claim; when in reality there is a lot more nuance to it. Was it retarded? Yes, but what was it started by, and you will get a different picture.

To be honest, it was a little more nuanced but still retarded if you look at the whole picture. If a media outlet is revealed to be compromised and nepotistic I would simply stop taking their opinion into consideration. Defending the idea of "gamer as an identity" is even more retarded - I do enjoy playing games, watching movies and reading books but those are just leisure time activities, not something that I would use to define who I am; "gamer as identity" is pure consoomerism. And both sides of the argument were puppeteered by professional grifters from the very beginning: Quinn, Sarkeesian, Cernovich, Yiannopoulos - just to name a few on both sides.
Not to mention they were the pioneers of deplatforming with their outrage letters about Gawker (fuck Gawker but the precedence was set).