That 'awful' website set up to dox and bully trans and disabled people and which has been directly linked to at least one suicide as well as the Christchurch shootings?
Don't think that's quite right, mate. The Christchurch shooting video was streamed on Facebook, that trillion dollar behemoth which helped Boris & Trump get elected.
The Christchurch shooter was not a KiwiFarms member.
KiwiFarms members download stuff from Facebook and other social media sites and re-host it in on their site. Often that stuff is subsequently deleted from the original source. This is the case with the Christchurch video.
KiwiFarms is not a primary source.
Sites such as 4chan are known as primary sources for those committing terrorist acts, since they have discussion boards where far-right ideology can be directly discussed. KiwiFarms otoh is devoted to the discussion of 'dox' of various kinds.
I don't think the Samaritans consider it appropriate to say things like 'Kiwi Farms made that person kill themselves', and trying to weaponize suicide like this is not really helpful.
You may well come to rue the day some GC people decided to get involved with websites like this - and I know there are mumsnet posters winding people up about trans people on there. It only takes one far right lone wolf attack on LGBT people to be linked to mumsnet or gender critical activism and the lives of everybody in the GC movement will change overnight.
Lol ok.
Mumsnet does not have a purity test to join. Neo-Nazis can sign up and register. So can trans rights activists. Male mass murderers. Anyone.
Some of the people posting on Mumsnet will have committed dreadful crimes.
As I understand it, the subject of this current thread has filed a number of lawsuits against women, and in the past some detail of the subject of this thread's past deeds could be found on Twitter, which is a site which contains many Nazis, paedophiles, illegal pornography, incitement to murder, and so on, but also lots of normal men and women. However the Twitter rules were changed over time to protect 'identity', and threads about this person went 'poof', because unlike Mumsnet, where if a poster is banned, it might be with just one single deletion, a Twitter ban nukes everything.
So over time those who would seek to document the abuse and misogyny of certain trans rights activists would find their posts wiped out entirely.
Some of these posters went to Reddit, but the same thing happened. Reddit does not delete poster's posting histories, but instead entire subreddits are banned. If you wanted to discuss misogyny on Reddit, then you would have posted that in a radical feminist forum, which Reddit banned all of, due to campaigning by trans activists, who control many of the popular subreddits, including things such as 'actuallesbians'.
When these subreddits were banned ALL of the posts to them disappeared.
I understand that it is a long-term goal to do the same to Mumsnet's Feminism forum, though this has not yet happened.
So far there is no sign of this happening on KiwiFarms, which maintains 'free speech absolutism'. I.e. if you started a thread on KiwiFarms documenting a UK transgender activist's bad behaviour a few years ago then it would still be there now, along with all the Facebook screenshots and so on proving it. These screenshots might have first been posted to Twitter, but if you looked today on Twitter, it is likely that they would no longer be there.
So KiwiFarms ends up as the place where this is posted, not perhaps as first choice, but because transgender activists have successfully changed laws and policies to prevent it anywhere else.
If you were online 25 years ago or so then if you wanted to discuss something you would have gone on usenet, where, say, child pornography was freely distributed. However, that doesn't mean that usenet posters to 'soc.feminism' supported child pornography, downloaded it, looked at it, or were in any way tainted by the association.
Equally, the fact that a certain GC person might have discussed 'Stephanie Hayden' on KiwiFarms, because that is the only place this can be done without 'Stephanie Hayden' getting their post deleted, demanding user data, or similar, doesn't meant that said GC person supports all of threads or posts on KiwiFarms, any more than going on 'soc.feminism' in 1995 mean you supported newsgroups hosting bestiality or what have you, or indeed given that some of the posters on 'soc.feminism' might not have been feminists, mean that you even supported all the posts in that group.
A poster on Mumsnet saying 'have you seen the thread on Kiwi Farms' means nothing beyond 'I saw something interesting/alarming about this person on Kiwi Farms', it does not mean 'I support the personal ideology of the Kiwi Farms owner', or 'I support every thread on Kiwi Farms'