Mentioning the Christchurch massacre is interesting. The Kiwi Farms had nothing to do with it other than re-posting the video after the fact -- the video that was live-streamed in its entirety on Facebook, a billion-dollar platform that supposedly has paid moderators.
Kiwi Farms was dropped by Cloudflare due to "imminent threat to human life". You know what that threat was? Some shitpost saying the poster called up some lads to place bombs at all the poutine places in Belfast. That post, which was very obviously nothing more than a joke in poor taste, was downvoted by the community as being dumb, and was removed within 15 minutes. Cloudflare used it as justification to permanently drop the entire site. Yet Facebook can actually live-stream a massacre (how's that for an "imminent threat"?) and continue operating. Hmm.
As for the suicides, that's something that gets repeated constantly, but is rather spurious. The supposed victims had messed up lives that they intentionally publicized online, and the Kiwi Farms did not cause their issues just by laughing at them. How do you "directly attribute" a suicide to a site, anyway? If I post saying someone is ugly, and that person kills themselves, am I directly responsible?
Also, one of the supposed victims is most likely still alive and faked his suicide, as the only confirmation is that a journalist claims to have called his employer, which is a weird way to confirm someone's death. No official reports or any other confirmation.
Kiwi Farms was dropped by Cloudflare due to "imminent threat to human life". You know what that threat was? Some shitpost saying the poster called up some lads to place bombs at all the poutine places in Belfast. That post, which was very obviously nothing more than a joke in poor taste, was downvoted by the community as being dumb, and was removed within 15 minutes. Cloudflare used it as justification to permanently drop the entire site. Yet Facebook can actually live-stream a massacre (how's that for an "imminent threat"?) and continue operating. Hmm.
As for the suicides, that's something that gets repeated constantly, but is rather spurious. The supposed victims had messed up lives that they intentionally publicized online, and the Kiwi Farms did not cause their issues just by laughing at them. How do you "directly attribute" a suicide to a site, anyway? If I post saying someone is ugly, and that person kills themselves, am I directly responsible?
Also, one of the supposed victims is most likely still alive and faked his suicide, as the only confirmation is that a journalist claims to have called his employer, which is a weird way to confirm someone's death. No official reports or any other confirmation.