Stalker Website Kiwi Farms Still Survives Despite Efforts of Sleuths, Engineers, Activists
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The world’s most notorious stalker website, Kiwi Farms, has endured despite the persistent efforts of a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists, showing up for months at a time, sometimes as a “mirror” of itself on an entirely different URL or as a foreign domain in countries such as Poland.
The group’s battle illustrates the lack of mechanisms for reporting online abuse, much less for banishing harmful content. It also raises serious doubts about society’s ability to block any site from the global web, even one that explicitly incites violence.
Founded in 2013, Kiwi Farms has been used to organize vicious harassment and stalking campaigns against targets including Clara Sorrenti, a transgender activist known as Keffals, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), a far-right Republican. It went …
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