4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise it announced on August 23. In the lawsuit, 4chan and Kiwi Farms claim that threats and fines they have received from Ofcom “constitute foreign judgments that would restrict speech under U.S. law.”
Both entities say in the lawsuit that they are wholly based in the U.S. and that they do not have any operations in the United Kingdom and are therefore not subject to local laws. Ofcom’s attempts to fine and block 4chan and Kiwi Farms, and the lawsuit against Ofcom, highlight the messiness involved with trying to restrict access to specific websites or to force companies to comply with age verification laws.
Kiwi farms is extremely racist and hateful but in terms of damage i think there are tons of reddit, discord, Facebook communities that are just as bad. Reddit allows communities that do everything they can to interfere and destroy people. I’m pretty sure reddit bullied some animal sanctuary youtber to suicide a few months ago.
Extreme anti social behaviour is so mainstream now it blows my mind. When I see it on the fringe of the internet I’m not surprised but when its right there on the most popular websites with hundreds of thousands joining in it makes me sick. The only difference between these communities and KF is that KF users can say slurs and dont have to mask up their language.
I guess KiwiFarms is public as well. Discord servers have a private nature and are hard to police.