Kiwi Farms might be shut down but that doesn't mean the ugly business of online harassment has taken a vacation.
Earlier this month, there was a rare victory in the fight against organized online harassment. Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, a Canadian Twitch streamer who had been targeted by the notorious harassment-based forum site, launched an incredible hashtag counter-campaign that got the site booted from its server Cloudfare and made it all but inaccessible to the rest of the internet.
“I was swatted two months ago,” says Tomlinson. “It was one in the morning. Six uniformed police officers handcuffed me naked on my porch and went through my house with no warrant or permission. They said they received a call saying I killed my wife with an AR-15. I talked directly to two different officers before this happened that it was something people were trying to pull on me. They had advanced warning two weeks prior, and they did it anyway.
Around 2003, Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, the founder of the forum site Something Awful, began cracking down on the sub-forum known as Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse. Specifically, he began removing lolicon, anime-style pornography where the characters resemble very young girls. This angered the vilest of the users, who began looking for a new home with no rules that would allow them to post the most atrocious things they could find.
Websites like Breitbart latched onto the community built on 4chan to ascend to a major player in the far-right media sphere and eventually put chairman Steve Bannon at the right hand of former President Donald Trump. Now, Kiwi Farms has fallen as so many others have, but this hive of deeply angry and cruel people have not gone away. They just migrate, and they will continue to.That is a quote from Jedi Master Kreia, a character in thevideo games. It’s also one of the favorite sayings of PhD candidate in Information Science at the University of Washington iSchool, Katherine Cross, who studies online harassment.
, including photoshopped images and false accusations of him being in pro-pedophilia groups. The attacks impacted Lynn’s career, including having some bands end their association with him out of fear of association.forums the same ones from Kiwi Farms, or the chan boards, or even leftover angry Something Awful users? It’s hard to say.
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