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by akimbostrawman 58 days ago
>Rossmann has an account on Kiwi Farms for the purpose of engaging with his supporters on the site. He acts friendly with them and they choose to actively support him

Once again. Okay and? Kiwifarms is a legal site in the us. He is engaging in no harassment or doxxing of anyone just talking to people that talk about him. Does micay talking on twitter with other people mean he supports musk or anything else anybody does on the platform?

If all your points are just "guilt by association" then just say that.
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handedness 57 days ago
It's beyond guilt-by-platform-use. I just started looking into this today, but the primary dox thread thanks Rossman for information he provided, so I'm not entirely sure about your claim. When Rossman does weigh in on that site he seems fairly unbothered by the fact that people on there are posting every private detail they can unearth of Micay's and calling for Micay's violent murder, at least from what I've seen in my cursory glance.

He's also made highly-viewed videos theatrically (and ridiculously) expressing technically unfounded concerns about the project, laid the blame at Micay's feet, and went on to make verifiably false claims about the project, about himself, about his own relation to it (from everything I can find about it), and appears to have no problem stoking any of it.

I had long appreciated Rossman's work on right-to-repair, but when that video came out I found it pretty beneath his potential. He scored cheap points from his considerably bully pulpit for his own benefit.

Reducing that to mere guilt by association hardly captures it. I posted some more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868159

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tranq_cassowary 57 days ago
KiwiFarms is a platform created for the purpose of cyber bullying, harassment and encouraging self-harm. This is very different from a general purpose social media platform that happens to have people signing up that misbehave. The whole point around KiwiFarms is that it's a place to be the most terrible version of yourself and the promise that it won't be moderated. It says a lot about Rossman that he believes it's worth engaging with such people there. Yes, reasonable and ethical people would indeed choose to not be associated with KiwiFarms.
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handedness 57 days ago
It's beyond guilt-by-platform-use. I just started looking into this today, but the primary dox thread thanks Rossman for information he provided, so I'm not entirely sure about your claim. When Rossman does weigh in on that site he seems fairly unbothered by the fact that people on there are posting every private detail they can unearth of Micay's and calling for Micay's violent murder, at least from what I've seen in my cursory glance.

He's also made highly-viewed videos theatrically (and ridiculously) expressing technically unfounded concerns about the project, laid the blame at Micay's feet, and went on to make verifiably false claims about the project, about himself, about his own relation to it (from everything I can find about it), and appears to have no problem stoking any of it.

I had long appreciated Rossman's work on right-to-repair, but when that video came out I found it pretty beneath his potential. He scored cheap points from his considerably bully pulpit for his own benefit.

Reducing that to mere guilt by association hardly captures it.

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