[JKCalhoun]

Had to look up what Kiwi Farm even is/was.

> Supporters of the Drop Kiwi Farms campaign celebrated the Internet Archive’s decision. “Internet heroes right here,” tweeted Yonah Gerber, who urged the Archive to remove the site. Kiwi Farms is known for collecting and publicizing personal details about targets it holds in contempt, many of whom are transgender women like Sorrenti. While the site ostensibly discourages direct harassment, Sorrenti has faced swatting attacks and persistent threats during her campaign, and other targets have had similarly ugly experiences. Kiwi Farms has been allegedly linked with three suicides, including an emulator developer who blamed the site for a relentless harassment operation soon before their death. [1]

Yeah, I have to say that I recognize nuance and am okay with archive.org nixing content like the above.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23341051/kiwi-farms-intern...

[Gigachad]

The problem with IA dropping the site was that no one could actually verify the claims about it while the site had been taken offline by the same campaign. It’s not a wonderful site but most of the claims the media make are easily proven false. For some reason much of the media confuses kiwi farms with 8chan and makes completely incorrect statements on it.

The emulator dev was never the subject of any kiwifarms discussion. Their letter blamed the state of mental health in America, Donald Trump, and kiwi farms. If that’s the bar for a site being pulled offline, then all social media should be.