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by Saoshyant 1779 days ago
> His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.

Because Byuu, who later went by "Near", tried to scrub as much personal information from the internet in the hopes of staying ahead of constant doxing attacks by an awful internet community called KiwiFarms. It didn't work. In the end, Near/Byuu committed suicide months ago to escape the constant harassment.

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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/near-byuu-suicide is one of the least-comprehensible stories I've ever read. I've been on the Internet since 1989, and practically none of that means anything to me.
> ...awful internet community called KiwiFarms.

The free speech Alamo. It often leads to funny results, like lesbians finding it to be the only place they could complain about some psycho in Canada targeting women operating small businesses - Youtube and Twitter banned several people over it before the Canadian media started covering it. Sometimes it leads to not so funny results, because that is the cost of agency - its kinda crazy that even has to be pointed out... but we seem to be at that point.

Holy shit, I didn't know. I'm sorry, I'm shocked and just don't know what to say. Thanks byuu for all your work. Hope you find peace. You will be remembered.