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They do have an agenda for sure. That wasn't the question, tho. The question was whether they condone or even encourage their users to target people with the go
by rndgermandude 4y ago
They do have an agenda for sure. That wasn't the question, tho. The question was whether they condone or even encourage their users to target people with the goal of driving those people into suicide?
This might be well the case. I am not one of their users nor am I educated in this matter, so I'd like to know too. When somebody makes this claim, as has been made multiple times in the threads here, with demands to therefore remove kikifarms from the internet, I think it is reasonable to ask for at least some evidence of such a claim.
- FrecklySunbeam 4y agoJosh Moon (founder) gloating on stream about getting Chloe Segal to kill herself after KF harassed her for 5 years https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1564490554754433025 https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1564490554754433025
- psyc 4y ago
- throwrqX 4y agoI don't see him gloating about getting Chloe Segal to kill herself in that tweet or video. What I see is him making fun of her death? Reminds me of a video I saw of a photo of Donald Rumsfeld being burnt when he died last year. What am I missing?
- FrecklySunbeam 4y agoHe founded and operates the site and he reacted to her death by calling himself a god. In what way is that not gloating? If the person burning the Rumsfeld photo contributed to his death then I might say they were gloating too.
- throwrqX 4y agoWhere is he calling himself a God?
- llbeansandrice 4y agoDid you not watch the video in the tweet?
- throwrqX 4y agoYes? He says he'll play something tasteful as an out-trail then some video plays until the end.
- tomrod 4y ago
- throwrqX 4y agoYour comment would be far more useful if you actually said what I was missing instead of what you said.
- rndgermandude 4y agoFor context, because I didn't know and I'd think others might not either: Apparently Chloe Segal killed herself by going to a public park and lighting herself on fire, telling witnesses in a spoken suicide note her reasons were homelessness and mental health issues. Josh Moon then playing "Fire" ("I am the God of hellfire and I bring you fire") is in extremely bad taste and outright vile. I can very well see this as gloating. And yet, it does not prove kiwifarms direct involvement. It's a short extract from a stream he did. Playing devil's advocate for a second, it for example might very well have been a response to media at the time already claiming he/kiwifarms was to blame for the suicide and therefore a rather misguided attempt to poke fun at what he might have considered unfair reporting.
- CJefferson 4y agoWould you accept posts which say people should kill themselves which have not been removed (and their posters not banned)? I could easily find hundreds of such posts, but I don't want to waste my time if you wouldn't consider them.
- naasking 4y agoAre you suggesting that not removing those posts is tacit agreement with their content rather than a principled stance on free speech for it's members? It could be both of course, but I always err on the side of charity even if you don't think they deserve it.
- CJefferson 4y agoIt is support -- kiwifarms isn't a free-for-all, they have their list of "lolcows" (people who have a thread dedicated to them), and only moderators can add new threads.
- naasking 4y agoSo only moderators can add new threads, and I assume users can post in threads, and I assume the users are the ones posting that the people should kill themselves. So how does this translate into the moderators or site operators/owners endorsing the content of user posts? Edit: to be clear, "allowing content" does not entail "endorsing content" per my original reply.