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<h1>The death of Kiwi Farms doesn't mean the end of free speech</h1>
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<p>published: 2022-08-28</p>
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<p>My female readers, have you ever menstruated so hard that you butterfly-effect caused the downfall of one of the Internet's most notorious forums? One trash bin begets another, it seems.</p>
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<p>A few days ago, Kiwi Farms went down because of another DDoS. I won't recount all of the details of what went down here because it's a tangled mess of disinformation on the mainstream news, trans-identified males making hormones to illegally disseminate to minors, and a long-running game of hot potato with Internet service providers. The important part is that, on the <a href="https://archive.ph/TvUnw#selection-107.1-107.362">downtime update page</a> that currently makes up the entire website, "Jersh" wrote the following:</p>
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<blockquote>The mob has already planned subsequent targets. Should we stay down, they will then attack 'gender critical' communities - especially those ran by and for women. No place can exist online which allows criticism of their fetishistic lifestyle, and nothing would excite them more than this power and domination struggle being inflicted on a female space instead.</blockquote>
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<p>This has naturally whipped <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220828155002/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/146668/owner-of-kiwifarms-releases-a-statement-on-the-downtime">the users of Ovarit into a frenzy</a> of wondering if they are next should Kiwi Farms be taken down, given that their site falls into the aforementioned category of "gender critical" and there have been (pitiful, but existent) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220828155724/https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/126029/tra-redditor-plans-to-infiltrate-ovarit">attempts to "infiltrate" it in the past</a>. Most of Ovarit's praise of Kiwi Farms centers around the collection of "receipts" (screenshots and other proof) of trans-identified individuals preying on minors and sexually harassing other members of society, with the occasional remembering of the racism, sexism, and other "-isms" rampant elsewhere on the site. I mean, hell, one only needs to listen to <em>literally any</em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220826125050/https://madattheinternet.com/">episode of the admin's podcast</a> to hear <em>plenty</em> of examples of why no self-respecting user of Ovarit (or anywhere, really) should touch Kiwi Farms with a ten-foot pole.</p>
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<p>Personally, I am not concerned about a potential death of Kiwi Farms or that it would impact "free speech" on the internet for two reasons:</p>
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<ol><li>Joshua Moon, the admin of Kiwi Farms, has promised ad nauseam that, if Kiwi Farms were ever to go down permanently, he would zip the whole site up into a torrent and distribute it.</li></ol>
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<p>This would involve somehow flattening the database of XenForo (the current forum software Kiwi Farms runs, although they were in the process of moving to a different one developed by the admin) into static HTML pages. This solves the whole concern about, if Kiwi Farms disappears from the Internet, all the "receipts" and archives gathered on the site would disappear as well. Of course, this depends on Mr. Moon both keeping his promise and having the time and resources to be able to do this... which may not happen in the case of legal action happening against the site.</p>
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<ol start="2"><li><strong>You all remember Tor exists, right?</strong></li></ol>
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<p>I wrote <a href="../may/divide.html">a post earlier this year</a> where I analyzed <em>all</em> the sites indexed by the <a href="http://juhanurmihxlp77nkq76byazcldy2hlmovfu2epvl5ankdibsot4csyd.onion">Tor search engine Ahmia</a> and found that a great deal of them were illegal pornography sites. One would think that this would be a major cause of concern for law enforcement, and yet police <a href="https://archive.ph/vl72O">don't seem able to mobilize fast enough</a>. (Not that I'm advocating for an increase in law enforcement power...) While <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220828162805/https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-project-to-fix-bug-used-for-ddos-attacks-on-onion-sites-for-years/">DDoS attacks against Tor</a> hidden services are still possible, so long as the admin takes pains to make themselves anonymous, the fact that hidden services cannot be easily, if at all, traced back to their hosting point of origin would negate many of the ways that Kiwi Farms has gone down over the years, mainly by bad actors contacting their hosting/domain providers and demanding that they drop the forum as a customer. Because <code>.onion</code> domains are not bought but instead generated by cryptography, there is no domain to be revoked and no financial penalty for switching to a new one should the Tor Project ever develop the ability to wholesale blacklist hidden services from being resolved on the network.</p>
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<p>If one forum on the Internet dies, it does not logically follow that all free speech everywhere is suddenly revoked. I've seen mountains of evidence otherwise with my own eyes in the course of putting together <a href="https://letsdecentralize.org/rollcall/tor.html">Let's Decentralize</a>. <em>Plenty</em> of sites that would immediately get nuked on the clearnet reside happily (well, as happy as hate-filled sites can be) and without issues on the darknet. So if you're truly worried about not being able to share receipts of predators without facing legal or physical threats from said predators, <a href="https://letsdecentralize.org/setup.html">learn how to host a site on the darknet</a>. Use Tor. Use I2P. Use Freenet if you can't afford keeping a computer online 24/7. Hell, even use ZeroNet in a VM if you have to. <strong>You have options</strong>, and lying down and crying about "muh freeze peach" and giving up is <em>not</em> a productive one.</p>
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<blockquote>All space becomes male space unless females maintain a concerted effort to mark a space for themselves.<br>- Sheila Jeffreys</blockquote>
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<p>For a long <em>long</em> time I have wished for a female-only lowercase-I internet. Even just a darknet, an overlay network a la Yggdrasil, a place no man could ever traverse. (Of course, it would be difficult without some kind of centralization to verify that only females are accessing the network, but this post is not concerned with implementation details.) A place without the cruft and scum and constant fighting for recognition of my worth as a person that defines the male-dominated Internet. From what I have seen of the few spaces like this on the clearnet I have found, I can extrapolate what this new network would look like: far less (maybe even no) pornography being spammed everywhere, less needless software complexity in the name of "dick-swinging" to pad out one's programming portfolio or resume, less soulless corporatist minimalism, fewer threats of violence, less harassment (sexual or otherwise), less SEO spam and blog chum... kinder interactions, more vibrant personality on personal websites...</p>
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<p>Less energy spent "proving" my worth as a (physically) human being.</p>
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<p>As far as socializing with strangers online goes, I have within the past few months taken up refuge in Ovarit (and ThePinkPill when the former doesn't have an appropriate "circle" for what I want to post or when said thing has already been posted but the discussion is dead and archived). In the process, I have discovered that <strong>I don't hate social media, I'm just tired of interacting with men.</strong> I have literally never had an argument on Ovarit in my time there. Plenty of disagreements and differences in opinion, sure, but no actual <em>fights</em> in the same way I did on an obscure forum in June when some "moid" was insultingly dismissive of my anxiety over the fall of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>. All my interactions on Ovarit have been respectful, if not warm and friendly and supportive. The archetypal social media user who only logs on to stir up shit and be a contrarian has a hard time taking root, quickly banned as a troll uninterested in arguing in good faith or contributing to a productive conversation. The women there (and maybe outside, if I were brave enough to share some of my writing away from the keyboard) just seem to understand my writing in a way that men appear to be fundamentally incapable of: the latter maybe a few key concepts here and there, but rarely, if ever, in its complex totality.</p>
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<p>As far as socializing with strangers online goes, I have within the past few months taken up refuge in Ovarit (and ThePinkPill when the former doesn't have an appropriate "circle" for what I want to post or when said thing has already been posted but the discussion is dead and archived). In the process, I have discovered that <strong>I don't hate social media, I'm just tired of interacting with men.</strong> <del>I have literally never had an argument on Ovarit in my time there.</del> Plenty of disagreements and differences in opinion, sure, but no actual <em>fights</em> in the same way I did on an obscure forum in June when some "moid" was insultingly dismissive of my anxiety over the fall of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>. (Almost) all my interactions on Ovarit have been respectful, if not warm and friendly and supportive. (<b>EDIT 2022-08-27: I've had <em>one</em> person call me "condescending" when I asked them to explain why I should have empathy for men. Fortunately the site has a block button.</b>) The archetypal social media user who only logs on to stir up shit and be a contrarian has a hard time taking root, quickly banned as a troll uninterested in arguing in good faith or contributing to a productive conversation. The women there (and maybe outside, if I were brave enough to share some of my writing away from the keyboard) just seem to understand my writing in a way that men appear to be fundamentally incapable of: the latter maybe a few key concepts here and there, but rarely, if ever, in its complex totality.</p>
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<p>It's funny the respect among users that naturally forms when you're surrounded by people who have already implicitly agreed on the value of your life and your words and your <em>personhood</em>.</p>
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<p>Despite it being a public website, I feel safe there in a way I haven't felt online in a long time. It is the same overwhelming feeling of sudden safety oft documented by women entering womyn's festivals for the first time (I think specifically of <a href="ipfs://QmUT6pjdhn6tC3GD1am64TAzpoqPD7hmjbG8hBGncyTkaY"><em>The Disappearing L</em> by Bonnie J. Morris</a>) and every time thereafter. Being in an environment of all women when one has been living in the world of men all their lives, suddenly cognizant of the male voyeur implanted in their brains since birth demanding they stay "pretty" and "consumable" all the time and how utterly useless it is there. It fills me with sorrow and yet hope at the same time: hopeful because the safety and camaraderie and solidarity expressed in the journals and snippets within prove that female separatist micro-societies <em>can</em> in fact function without men, sorrowful because many of them were shuttered before I came out and ever knew of them, but hopeful again because what once was can be yet again - and <em>is</em>, now, today, in many places throughout the world.</p>
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<p>What levels of freedom can I not even conceive of because of the weight of misogyny I've carried all my life? What does a truly liberated female who has never known male-caused violence, male-caused sexualization, male-caused <em>dehumanization</em> look like?</p>
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