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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This week saw the conclusion of the campaign to shut down one of the internet’s most toxic forums, Kiwi Farms.

Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti aka “Keffals” led the charge against the site after she was targeted by anonymous users of Kiwi Farms for being a trans woman and speaking out against anti-LGBTQ laws. Stalkers repeatedly doxxed her and her family members, and left them threatening voicemail messages.

Harassment campaigns against trans people, journalists, influencers, activists, sex workers, all sorts of people, effectively became the site’s raison d'etre after it was founded in 2013. OTM correspondent Micah Loewinger spoke to NBC's Ben Collins about the life and death of Kiwi Farms.

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0:00.0	This is on the media, I'm Michael Langer.
0:03.8	This week saw the conclusion of the campaign to shut down one of the internet's most
0:08.2	toxic forums.
0:09.9	A site you've probably never heard of.
0:12.5	We did it.
0:13.9	We actually did it.
0:15.8	So many people have tried.
0:17.8	For so long to do this.
0:20.0	And we actually got Kiwi Farms down.
0:23.3	That's Twitch streamer Clara Cerenty, aka Kephels, celebrating the take down of Kiwi
0:29.4	Farms and its founder Joshua Moon earlier this week.
0:34.1	Before it was taken offline, anonymous users on Kiwi Farms spent the month of August targeting
0:39.0	her for being a trans woman and for speaking out against anti-LGBTQ laws.
0:44.7	Stocker's repeatedly docks her and her family members and left them threatening voicemail
0:49.1	messages.
0:50.1	Her Asmient campaigns against trans people, journalists, influencers, activists, sex workers,
1:12.4	all sorts of people became the site's raison d'etre after it was founded in 2013.
1:17.7	It's a way to archive every movement of people they deemed to be a lalkow.
1:23.1	That's NPC's Ben Collins who wrote about Kephels and Kiwi Farms last week.
1:28.3	Lalkow was generally to them a trans person.
1:31.0	They were going after people who were frequently private citizens.
1:34.8	They archived their every movement.
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