I think it's because the media needed a new "scary internet website" target because 8chan got blown off clearnet and at this point 4chan has been up for almost 2 decades and hasn't had anything happen to the site despite constant demonizing and coverage in news, media and especially during major crises in recent years.
Moot himself created the /pol/ board and even though it has been attributed to as being the birthplace of the current far-right extremism culture- I don't remember him ever being mentioned in relation to 4chan negatively.
He even was able to sell 4chan and secure a job at Google. It's safe to say 4chan is a honeypot at this point and will not go down any time soon so Kiwifarms is the next fall guy.
Unfortunately, having more concentrated topics and having a tighter community like we do (since we're not a completely anonymous form site) it's just gonna be easier for others to place agendas on us since content here is more coherent and has structure compared to Encyclopediadramatica or Lolcow.farm especially since most people that are talked about on Kiwi are also discussed on those sites, but with those sites having paragraphs filled with more slurs than actual words and femoid vendetta-posting it would seem as though the media wouldn't have much to run with when it comes to them.
Though I really don't think this site would have gotten the coverage it did it they didn't slap on the "terrorist website" aspect to the campaign since a lot of America is still very against the LGBT, especially transgendered people and the whole "the trans are being cyberbullied!!! literally making all of us commit suicide!!!!" story would not have gotten mainstream media attention when so many have tried in the past and couldn't get any traction.
I would hate to see this site have to be censored to continue operating, I know that Null doesn't want that to happen though I wonder if something will have to change to prevent being targeted as badly as we have been.
Even something small like implementing a function similar to how Somethingawful wont let you access most of the site without having an account, not necessarily the paywall aspect but just having a login-to-view the forms feature.
We just have to make the site slightly more difficult to access outside of true and honest fans really, I think having the Chris-Chan section, Featured Content and the OPs for an individuals thread open to view without an account would be more than enough to gain interest for sign up, community growth and discussion, paired with keeping registration invite only for a while until we feel like the site is secure enough would help deflect others from organizing against us since having small protections like this would be easier to contain and prevent gay ops from pulling one over on the ol' farms and posting site destroying threats and collecting from our site in general for smear campaigns against us. I know this would bring issues in keeping the farms fully archived but it's just general wishful thinking to secure this sites survival. I've been lurking here for years and it's become my morning paper in a way.
I just want a big, beautiful #KiwiWall to keep us safe.
