Hey Josh,
Doing a story on Kiwi Farms. Had a couple of questions for you. If you would like to respond e need a response/responses by Monday EOD.
Thanks in advance. Here are the questions:
Were you a poster on the website Something Awful?
Do you own the website and forum Kiwi Farms?
Do you run the business 1776 Solutions?
Is it accurate to say that 1776 Solutions began as “Final Solutions”?
Is there anyone else who shares primary responsibility of the site with you?
Why do you run this website? And how would you describe the purpose of the website?
How do you moderate the website? Do you have examples of stopping behavior on the website?
With the knowledge that Kiwi Farms has been blamed for harassing people to the point of suicide, why do you run the website?
Is it accurate to say that Kiwi Farms kept any kind of “kill count” formally, or informally by users in posts that referenced suicides it helped encourage?
Did you do anything to discourage this kill count?
Did you do anything as a moderator to stop users from posting information about users, and further harassment, that led to suicides?
What is your response to Kiwi Farms' alleged encouragement of the suicide of Chloe Sagal?
What is your response to Kiwi Farms' alleged encouraging of the suicide of Julie Terryberry?
Kiwi Farms worked to get her social media accounts shut down while mocking her mental health struggles?
What is your response to Kiwi Farms' alleged encouraging of the suicide of David Ginder?
Did Kiwi Farms relentlessly bully Ginder for being non-binary? Did one thread went on for more than a dozen pages before Ginder's death?
Users on the website have celebrated the deaths of so-called “lolcows.” How would you respond to this?
Experts and targets have said that Kiwi Farms users have systematically attempted to cause suicides. How do you respond to this?
Did you take part in harassment campaigns on Kiwi Farms?
From the start of the forum, did you take part in discussions that helped establish the purpose of the website? And its tone?
Were you involved in discussions about Chris Chan?
You posted on Kiwi Farms and other forums information about Chris Chan that has been described as abuse. Do you deny this?
Did you write a response to the New Zealand police, and others, saying that the forum Kiwi Farms should be able to keep up with videos of the Christchurch shooting?
Did Kiwi Farms users attempt to SWAT Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Did Kiwi Farms users attempt to SWAT the Twitch streamer Keffals?
An anonymous target of Kiwi Farms claims the forum’s users “SIM-jacked” them, among other abuses. Do you deny that Kiwi Farms has used this technique?
Kiwi Farms users have been reported to have stalked, harassed, SWAT-ed, defamed, cyberstalked, sent messages encouraging self-harm, and doxed people. Is that accurate?
Kiwi Farms users target specifically the vulnerable and marginalized—homeless, transgender, and neurodivergent people. Why is that?
A Twitter biography of Kiwi Farms described the website as such: ““Gossip and exploitation of mentally handicapped for amusement purposes.” Why did the website describe itself this way?
Do you live in Pensacola, Florida?
Do you live with your mother?
Is your mother a nurse and/or realtor?
Have you ever interacted directly with Kiwi Farms targets?
Do Kiwi Farms users ever target journalists who report on the website?
Did you take part in a harassment campaign against Greta Martela that occurred on Kiwi Farms?
Did you file a police report when a person named Greta Martela visited your house to demand you, and the users of Kiwi Farms, stop harassing her?
You operate the Null account, correct? You posted on the forum Something Awful in the 2000s, right?
You began, on that forum, tracking Chris Chan, correct? Why have you spent years tracking Chris Chan?
Are you worried about causing them any mental anguish by relentlessly documenting and commentary on their life?
Why did you find the material Chris Chan posted on the internet interesting? Or funny?
In 2013, you said that part of the reason for Kiwi Farms's name was to avoid naming it something directly related to Chandler, to avoid problems with domain hosts. What did you anticipate to be the issue?
Is it accurate to call your politics far-right? If not, how would you describe them?
Kiwi Farms crypto addresses are linked to Stake.com, suggesting you're using Kiwi Farms money, or your crypto accounts to gamble. Is this the case? Are you using Kiwi Farms donations to make these bets or other money?
Between 2019 to 2021 you received over 4 bitcoin in donations and ethereum worth tens of thousands of USD, correct? What other sources of income do you have beside Kiwi Farms donations? Why do you think Kiwi Farms disproportionately targets and discusses trans people? What's the current status of the website?
Users on Kiwi Farms describe themselves as “autists.” Why do you think that is?
Do you think users on Kiwi Farms target trans people and others who are marginalized because they see themselves in people who are lonely and struggling?
Do you deny that Kiwi Farms users have cheered for a target’s dog to die? And that this was in the hope that someone would commit suicide?
Has Kiwi Farms ever harassed someone for supporting a hotline for trans people?
Do you deny that much of the harassment Kiwi Farms users engage in is criminal?
Kiwi Farms warrant canary came down in 2019. Has Kiwi Farms been investigated by government agencies/received warrants, and if so by what government agency or agencies?
