My own personal journey with Kiwi Farms has been a long and frankly strange experience, and speaks to the treacherous nature of a culture of online harassment. The things that likely made me an attractive target for the message board’s users were my trans identity, my young journalism career and a small but growing social media presence .
None of this prevented my doxing, though I suspect that scrubbing my internet history limited the damage that could have been done to my privacy. For the first year or so, I would routinely check my Kiwi Farms thread to see what users were saying about me. At first, I used the excuse that I needed to monitor the site “for dangerous threats.” Later I realized it had become a bit of an addiction, an understandable compulsion to know what strangers were saying about me.
This, of course, is the entire point of the site: to get in your head. As a target of Kiwi Farms, the more you let on that you thought about them, the happier they would get. For trans people in particular, who are more likely to have a mostly online social life after friends and family abandon them after transitioning, Kiwi Farms was especially dangerous.
The entire episode with Sorrenti shows how this can play out. More physical threats mean it’s more likely that targets will monitor their own threads on the site for potential warning signs.
Dr. Meredith Raimondo’s egregious actions accusing Gibson’s Bakery of racism cost Oberlin College over $33,000,000. Students caught shoplifting pled guilty, denied racism was an issue.
How could you be AWOL from the biggest battle since WWII. Ukraine is chasing one of the largest armies across its land like a whirlwind and you are yammering on about Trump. I've seen the same pictures over and over of the Queen. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT BREAKING NEWS IS!!
Msnbc calls Trump disputing election results the Big Lie,but when democrats did exact same thing in 2017 it was okay, FTC needs to take msnbc off the air