The references to doxing and bomb threats by MargaritaPie are a red-herring. So far as I'm aware an old account on KF which had an extremely low post-count and hadn't been active for a long time suddenly made a post talking about how someone should bombing Keffels or something, it was deleted by the user themself a few minutes later, iirc. And was very vaguely worded to begin with.
Josh wasn't contacted by the police about it; indeed no evidence that Keffels nor any ally of Keffel's took it to the police. But it's brief and inexplicable existence was apparently then taken to CloudFlare and others as "evidence" that the Farm's was "doxing people" leading to "credible threats of violence".
My thought? It was posted to provide a rationale to bring down the site. The fact that it was immediately taken not to the authorities but direct to a service provider to try and get the site down is very telling.
Not merely telling but it is the essence of the problem. We are now in an age of "pull", rather than legal process. The Farms has had major DDOS services withdrawn, ISPs drop it, hosting companies refuse business, payment providers block it, attorneys have been directly campaigned against to try and prevent Josh from having legal representation... Not one aspect of which has gone through legal process or provided any normal assessment of evidence or reaching out to the client (Josh / KiwiFarms) about defence. All of this is via rumour, harassment controls and TRAs in positions of influence who know each other.
When a society enters that state, then those not in positions of influence are easily deplatformed, dehumanised and dealt with. It's not new - the principle is the same as excommunication, of not being in the Party in the Soviet Union and any number of other historical parallels. Western Democracy is not supposed to be mob rule. But we're at the point where legal process are simply not in the loop. Obsoleted by business and people and groups with "pull".
To counter that you need to organise and build "pull" of your own. Not everybody hope someone else will do something.
People here are debating whether it should be allowed that a relatively easily determined address from publicly shared information by the person themself should be permitted to be posted; when the reason the site is targeted is not that at all, but rather information about people like Keffel's pushing child surgery, how to make home made hormones and hide this from parents, etc. It's the latter that they want to hide, not their address!
Josh is apparently working on a new solution. Maybe he'll pull it off and maybe he wont. But he did write the following which I like:
"For the record, and for those reading outside our community, it is worth mentioning that I am very unexceptional. I have no formal education in computers and I have no significant financial support. Everything that I do is self-taught, as needed, and with a shoestring budget.
That it takes the combined efforts of thousands of people, multiple concurrent lawsuits, non-profit orgs like the ADL, and entire governments to even throw us off our footing should be encouraging to anyone young who is pessimistic about how the situation looks for online freedom of expression. A single, sufficiently-stubborn person can do a lot - and that person can be you."
Win or lose, this has exposed a lot about the people against Free Speech and GC views and their influence. And that has value in and of itself. What was that line someone said: "Remember: if the situation were truly hopeless their propaganda wouldn't be necessary”