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by 634636346 1060 days ago
Thankfully, the site is no longer available via clearweb, so we can just take its characterization by its harshest critics at face value, rather than having to actually read it ourselves and make up our own minds.

However, I do find it strange that the site now only being available through Tor--and thus not showing up in Google search results or being easily browsable by "normies"--seems to have been enough to assuage the people spearheading its deplatforming, since Tor should pose little of an impediment to those capable and willing enough to IRL harass and SWAT people (the purported real reason KF exists). It's almost as if their real concern is people being able to google them and find a site that comprehensively documents their bad, and perhaps illegal, behavior.
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tombert 1060 days ago
Well wait, maybe they gave up the deplatforming effort largely because it’s not as easy to deplatform an onion site as it is to harass web hosts on Twitter.

Also, wasn’t a big complaint with KF their doxxing? Even if I didn’t do any bad or illegal things, I don’t really want a bunch of trolls knowing my address.

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subsistence234 1060 days ago
But if you HAD done bad things and they WERE documented on KF, you might try even harder to get it shut down. And if you had plenty money and influential contacts, and no moral qualms, you might succeed. Only temporarily though.
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heywhatupboys 1060 days ago
> Thankfully, the site is no longer available via clearweb

it's a frigging gossip site. Much worse has been posed to facebook. I don't agree with ANYTHING non-court-ordered takedown of sites.

Not to mention: it was ONE person with powerful personal connections to the internet backbones that got a personal favor.

They even harassed the WIFE of the lawyer representing KiwiFarming

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sneed_today 1056 days ago
Actually it is available via the clearweb - https://sneed.today.
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yanderekko 1060 days ago
>Thankfully, the site is no longer available via clearweb

Untrue, but once enough people know this I'm sure it'll be taken out again. I'd post the link but I'd probably be jeopardizing my YC account..

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