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rms (Wiki): Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ˈkwɪki/ KWIH-kee), is an internet forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxxing and real-life harassment.[2][3][4] These actions have tied Kiwi Farms to the suicides of three people targeted by members of the forum.[15] Kiwi Farms' connection to several controversies and harassment campaigns has caused the forum to be blocked by Internet service providers or refused service by companies. After the Christchurch mosque shootings, some Internet service providers in New Zealand blocked the site. In 2021, after the suicide of Near, a non-binary software developer who was subject to targeted and organised group harassment by members of the site, DreamHost stopped providing their domain registration services to Kiwi Farms. In September 2022, Kiwi Farms was blocked by Cloudflare due to "an imminent and emergency threat to human life". Following intermittent availability, The Daily Dot confirmed VanwaTech was providing content delivery network services to the site, which brought it back online. In September 2022, Kiwi Farms suffered a data breach; the site operator told users to assume that IP addresses, email addresses, and passwords had been leaked.[16][17] Kiwi Farms was founded in 2013 by Joshua Conner Moon (known as "Null" on the website), a former 8chan administrator.[18][19][7][20] It was originally launched as a forum website to troll and harass a webcomic artist who was first noticed in 2007 on the Something Awful forums.[21][2][22]: 8–9  Eventually, an Encyclopedia Dramatica page was created about the artist. A dedicated wiki, titled "CWCki" based on the artist's initials, was created by people who felt that the Encyclopedia Dramatica entry was not detailed or accurate enough.[2] Kiwi Farms was originally called "CWCki Forums"[23] before "Kiwi Farms" was coined in 2014.[2] It now hosts threads targeting many individuals, including minorities, women, LGBT people, neurodivergent people, people considered by Kiwi Farms users to be mentally ill or sexually deviant, feminists, journalists, Internet celebrities, video game or comics hobbyists, and far-right personalities.[2][3][7] The targets of Kiwi Farms threads are often subject to organized group trolling, harassment, and stalking, including real-life harassment by users.[2][4] The site targets transgender people,[25][26][27][28] people with disabilities,[27][29] those its users believe to be non-neurotypical,[27][29][28] and members of the far-right.[30][31] Tactics include publishing their victims' personal information ("doxxing"), trying to get them fired from their jobs, reporting crimes at their addresses in an attempt to have police dispatched to their homes ("swatting"), and harassing their family members and friends. Some of Kiwi Farms' harassment campaigns have continued for months or years, and some aim to drive the targets to suicide.[3][32] Both the site's owner Moon and the userbase of Kiwi Farms have been described as antisemitic, with Kiwi Farms users targeting a transgender Jewish convert with antisemitic abuse.[33][34] Tags: kiwi farms,dropkiwifarms,shutdownkiwifarms,cloud flare,online hate,keffals,transgender,transrights,keffals live,keffals clips,keffals twitch,keffals streamer,keffals livestream,keffals livestreamer,streaming,trans rights,lgbtqia,trans women,lgbtq,lgbtq debate 2022,lgbtq drama,lgbtq educational videos,lgbtq episode,a transgender story,boy transgender,transgender debates,debate on transgender,documentary transgender,transgender educational video