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by turkeysandwich 1390 days ago
> But it seems you're fine with Kiwi Farms literally posting SSNs, bank balances, passwords to accounts, and much more.

Small correction, this doesn't happen on Kiwi Farms. Kiwi Farms is focused on discussing much more mundane, public drama. Just interactions between people, mostly on public social media like Twitter, Youtube and others. Things like hacking, private financial information, DDoSing, swatting, are all heavily policed on Kiwi Farms. Additionally, directly interacting with the subject of a thread on Kiwi Farms is also bannable.

Their ethos is watching monkeys in the zoo, not going out and poking them themselves.

There's actual shady forums out there that do those illegal things, generally hosted in foreign countries or behind Tor.

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Your correction is incorrect. People have shown forum posts by users posting passwords, bank balances, and SSNs. They called the SSNs 'Minecraft numbers' to try to skirt any moderation attempts, so don't try to sweep this stuff under the rug. Their users are doing this and their mods know it. They only delete such information an attempt to put a fig leaf on the matter. Too little, too late.